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Emma Watson

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

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Emma Watson is saying that real understanding comes only through living through situations yourself, not just by hearing advice from others. She highlights that making your own errors is necessary because those personal experiences teach lessons that secondhand knowledge cannot.

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