Few lessons provide the authenticity and perspective gained from direct experience across virtually endless numbers of undertakings and endeavors. But, suppose all progress hinged on attaining competency as a consequence of immediate experience alone? Restricting societal progress to the knowledge gained during a generation dooms its successors to repeat the process in perpetuity. In the famous 1993 movie, Groundhog Day, the protagonist (Bill Murray) awoke one day to experience a continuous cycle of reliving the previous day. Not until making a concerted effort to gain sufficient knowledge, and diligently apply it, would the protagonist’s mystifying predicament resolve. Genuine progress as an individual, group or society combines knowledge
