I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.
North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.
You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.
The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.