Some of the biggest life lessons will always revolve around money and health, and I think this is because health and money are two biggest definitive factors that contributes to how well a person can live in life, and because they're too instrumental or impactful to our well being, most of the lessons we learn through them always hits different.
For example it's always difficult to see people who are raises awareness about a medical condition, except they've experienced first or second hand, the brutality of living with that condition, it's just not possible.
Health
For example, look at diabetes, almost everyone who raises awareness about type 2 diabetes have either been impacted by it. The capability to learn through that lens of experience (howbeit, very tough) is what makes people advocates.
A few years back, I did a fasting blood sugar test, and discovered that my blood sugar was a little bit higher than normal. I also have other health commorbodities, and didn't want to add diabetes to it, so I introduced something to my diet and cut out soda completely.
Before that, I could take several bottles of Soda a day, and why not? I enjoyed the sugar rush and dopamine hits that came with it, and honestly had no idea there was anything called diabetes. See, I was living in ignorance, and that ignorance could have been the end of me, but I learned just in time that diabetes was real.
So what was the difference between "loving sugar" and not "loving it anymore". The difference was coming to learn about diabetes and how deadly it is.
It's the same with every horrible habits that people indulge in. A lot of people thinks they cannot get rid of their addiction, until they have to choose with either being dead or stopping their addiction, this is why learning through experience through first or second person lens can make all the difference.
We understand that being sick basically sucks everything that seems pleasant about life. Diseases; either acquired, congenital, lifestyle or genetic basically takes away the essence of life. Your life stops in front of you, and you're basically just nonexistent until your health gets better.
Money
It's the same with money. Unfortunately we don't learn money lessons until we are in money conversations. Handling, making, planning and even management.
A lot of people don't understand the importance of handling money management, or the importance of understanding money management.
You might argue that they some of these are taught in schools, but the reality is that most of the lessons we learn in school are 50% useless when we apply them to real life situations.
Actual money management is learned through the process of trial and error. Sometimes people don't actually understand money until they've seen the good and the bad side of management and mismanagement.
I didn't start learning about money disciple until I actually started losing it. Being broke makes you frugal, because let's be real every 2/3 person who are broke once mismanaged money either consciously or unconsciously.
People don't set out to mismanage their money, they just didn't take the idea of not having that money seriously.
Money & health
Money and health almost share the same lesson funnel, even though the lessons learned are quite different, the end game of the lesson is the same.
With health, it's a bit more devastating, especially when you're losing an organ or have a dilapidating health condition that only gets worse with time.
With money, there's always a chance that when you've learned your lessons you can be opportuned to be lucky again, especially if you put in the work, with health it's not the same.
Someone who lost a kidney to type 2 diabetes may have learned their lessons, especially lessons like "take your health seriously, stay away from sugar, check your health", but unfortunately these lessons cannot give them a new kidney, except they get a transplant.
Life is brutal in these way, but unfortunately experience still remains the way people actually learn, because we don't believe what we have been through. It's also a terrible way to learn too, unfortunately we will continue to thread this path...