of course the very famous Chinese philosopher. From you know, a long, long

time ago. All right. Let's take a look at this quote. The first part is " By three

methods we may learn wisdom. First by reflection which is the noblest. Second

by imitation which is the easiest and third by experience which is the

bitterest. " You know the most painful. All right. So let's continue with this quote.

Confucius is literally giving you three methods, not only to learn but to become

wiser. We can learn many things in our life. They don't always make us wiser.

Yeah. You can learn the combination to a lock. That doesn't make you wiser. You can

learn some trivia about what movie star starred in that movie or you know who

won that Academy Award or you know who hit the most homeruns. These don't

necessarily make you wiser. You did learn something , but it didn't necessarily make

you a wiser person. Okay. It is only through a deeper understanding of

analyzing and distinguishing what is more important or morally right or wrong

can we become wiser. All right. Let's continue. Reflection is deep analyzing of our past

behavior and judging the morals of behavior. This is most noble because we

have to use our higher-level qualities and we have to use our understanding. We

have to use our thought. We have to use any spiritual aspects that we may have

about ourselves. So that's why this is the most noble. We have to use

these higher levels and one must be brave. Yes. Remember bravery is part of

being noble too. To fairly judge one's own actions in a fair truthful and unbiased

way, to improve oneself. Okay. Let's look at it. Let's continue. The second method is

the easiest because we simply have to follow and copy behavior of other

successful people who had good habits. Yeah. So that's why sometimes in a store you

see these people, they buy somebody's life story and they think maybe by you

know, trying to do the same thing, it doesn't always work out.... that they may also have

a successful life. But if you're serious about it, you could try to follow their

path and you know he's saying this might be the easiest way to do it. To become a

wiser person. Okay , and yeah, so you copy their behavior and there are other good

habits of course. And , and also their moral behavior. The third method is the

most bitter. Or the one that'll make you ... you might still learn, you might still

become wiser, but it's the most painful way to do it. We can understand this from

the idiom " to learn the hard way. " Yeah in English we have that to learn the hard

way , we hear that all the time. We always hear our parents and a teacher saying

"well I'm just warning you because I don't want you to have to learn the hard

way." I don't want you have to learn through making ... having the experience

and doing making mistakes and you learn through those mistakes. So from this

idiom 'to learn the hard way' hopefully you learn by your mistakes. So that's

another thing a lot of times we do make mistakes but sometimes we don't learn

from them. We have to make the same mistake again and again. Maybe before you

finally may learn from it and become wiser. It is the most painful. Painful

because you have to live with the consequences of your mistakes. Hopefully

you can make up for it. Hopefully and get past it. But you know, some mistakes, the

consequences may linger. So this is why it may be the bitterest, or you know the

one that may make you the most unhappy. But again, you could still become wise

this way as well. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time.

Bye-bye.