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Quote: Lessons from Experience

But will the lessons be learned or repeated?

“Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lessons afterward.” Jeff Guite, founder and president of American Preparedness. This quote is right on the money. We learn by doing and then sometimes we fail. The only real question: Are we learning the lessons being taught? Or, do we go out and repeat our actions and get the same results and wonder why we are not making any progress?

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.