Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #1

We should get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it-and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on the hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on the hot stove-lid again…but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

-Mark Twain


What might be some examples of a person getting more out of an experience than it is teaching?