The Benefits and Drawbacks of Learning from Your Own Life Lessons w/ John Lovell

There is a saying that experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lesson. Does it? Do we need to go through suffering to learn? While we might be in this world for the first time not knowing anything, there is something we can do to make our lives worthwhile.

John Lovell shares his life experiences about growing up without proper guidance from his father, being reckless that drove him to delinquency, finding his beloved wife, to being unmade and remade. Tune in as John walks us through his life, where God turned on his desire to learn and set on a path of wisdom and holy ambition, a desire to live for others.

Quotes:

• “There is a horrible cost and consequence, which you will never be able to weigh.” -  John Lovell
• “If you have a heart that is hard, the only way to change it is to break it first.” - John Lovell
• “There is no way to replace just good old fashioned spending time with your loved ones.”  - John Lovell

Takeaways:

• You don’t have to experience it to know it will hurt you. It is better to learn from the wisdom of those who have come before you than letting experience fall upon you.
• The Lord must first break your heart in order to have it. The hardest part of making it through is when you need to be completely destroyed. Nevertheless, you can take something away from this and have a change from the inside out.  
• Being able to connect with loved ones on an emotional level, vulnerability is one of the crucial parts of building connections with them.

Conclusion:

The best teacher may be experienced, but you can learn from other people's mistakes. You don't have to go through and keep making those same mistakes and acting recklessly in the same ways. You could do better than that by surrounding yourself with the right people. There is nothing wrong with being vulnerable to loved ones. Change your patterns that cause problems and build connections on an emotional level.