Contest entry: Experience is the best teacher.

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Greetings fellow steemians and welcome to my blog. It feels reassuring to have you here once more. For today's post, I will like t make an entry for a contest organized by @ihorgic and this contest is one of a kind.

The goal for my kind of contest has not changed, it's for us all to learn and check our belief system... Perhaps we've been running with the wrong mindset all our lives... Who knows?

I really fancy and admire the goal of this contest and this goal is the reason of me being a part of it. Nevertheless, some person's may be going about with a wrong mindset and know about it but still refuse corrections probably due to their pride or should I say arrogance.

Well, from my experience about life, I really and a hundred percent support the motion of "experience is the best teacher."

A person born with a golden or silver spoon will not know the taste of poverty, until he's parent goes bankrupt. If an individual don't experience the good, bad and ugly side of life, they will tend to do things without thinking straight of the consequences. This brings me to ID, EGO AND SUPER EGO.

According an Australian psychologist called psygmund Freud, there are three foundations of personality development which are the id, the ego and the super ego.
Id is the pleasure principle that seems for gratification, while ego(not pride) is the voice of God that counteracts the id and super ego is the reward and purnishment principle.

• ID: the if is the foundation inwhich the ego and superego are built on. A child's personality is one that always seek for gratification..they want everything and expect their parent to get it for them.

• Ego: this is the second stage of personality development and in this stage, the ego counter acts the id. For example, if the id is pushing a child to dedicate on the floor, the ego will tell the child not to because it is not good.
  However most times, the child abandons the words of the ego and proceed to do what the id tells him/her to do. That is why the need of superego comes to play.

• Superego: superego brings about he knowledge of rewards and purnishment to the child and this is brought about by story telling, and "experiencing" purnishment For example, if a child wants to deficate on the floor, but has an "experience" of him being flogged or scolded at when they did it, they will tend to look for the rest room by any means possible to avoid the experience with the cane.

In our day to day lives, different voices (Id) talks to us to do insightful things that will bring shame to us. However, there is a small voice in our mind(ego also called the voice of God) that tells us not to do those things because they are not good. If a person have not experienced the purnishment of that particular thing, they will continue to do it irrespective of the fact that the Superego will remind them about the purnishment but if they have experienced the purnishment of that particular thing, thy will flee from it.

Another example is in decision making and risk bearing.
From my perspective, it takes an experienced person to make a good decision. For e.g from my previous experience I have being scammed countless of times by strangers and even friends, I will not trust anyone as much to give them my money or any important thing to hold for me, and the experience will teach me how to be very secured compared to before.