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But one's personal experience is always limited and parochial, and it's foolishness not to try to learn from the many very intelligent and wise people who have come before us.
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Speak for yourself, how limited or parochial your life may, or may not be, is up to you.
Published literature is of course interesting, and serves to provide us with a range of new ideas, but everything somewhere down the line must have been based on someone's experience. Would you rather base your thoughts on someone elses parochial and limited viewpoint rather than trust your own?