# The Hard Thing About Learning From Experience
**URL:** https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985
**Category:** Blog Comments
**Created:** [July 18, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985 "2022-07-18T09:49:07Z")
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### Author:  [@cedric](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/cedric)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985/1 "2022-07-18T09:49:07Z")
The hard thing about learning from experience is that you don’t know how to make sense of your experience.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://commoncog.com/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/](https://commoncog.com/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/)
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### Author:  [@leoc](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/leoc)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985/2 "2023-08-13T16:08:19Z")
Does this mean that its much easier to get stuck and fail to unlearn in wicked market environments? After all, it’s harder to assess the validity of your mental models.
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### Author:  [@cedric](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/cedric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985/3 "2023-08-13T16:08:20Z")
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### Author:  [@cedric](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/cedric)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/the-hard-thing-about-learning-from-experience/985/4 "2023-08-14T00:09:52Z")
Yep!
It’s part of the reason why I really enjoyed @brian’s [Beware of Tight Feedback Loops](https://brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops/) — investing is an extremely wicked domain, and Brian’s conclusions were independently derived from practice.