Your previous article and comment I just read is still bothering me.
Direct experience is king. But!
What and how much you learn from it, largely (I believe) depends on your intuition (or previous experience) - the baggage you carry around.

Some people could easily be building personal paradise, but design their personal misery. If only they had it all.
What’s that? I don’t know, all. But if they had it, they’d do it.

It’s the idea (that got incepted in me) that everyone always does what’s in their best interest, given ALL their circumstances.