Experience is what you get just after you needed it. Or so the saying goes, suggesting that if only you had known beforehand what you learn afterwards, you would have avoided mistakes and achieved a better result. That’s largely true (in my experience!) but it isn’t a blanket statement that’s applicable in all cases.
A lot of people succeed at innovation because they didn’t have enough experience to realize that they should have failed. When they started they didn’t have enough knowledge or experience to appreciate all the barriers they had to overcome, so they either ignored them or surpassed them when they were encountered.
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