What do you call someone who learns from someone else's mistakes.

[Baitball Blogger]

It's not visual learner. It's more like someone who lives through another person's experiences.

It's at the tip of my tongue.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Very rare, these days!

here's a quote I just found

'Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others."

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Vicarious learners.

I actually found it after I posed the question.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. ah. I stand by my statement - very rare indeed!

[orleans]

2. lives through another's experiences is living vicariously

is there such a thing as a vicarious learner?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I was a vicarious learner.

We were raised to fear the consequences, which is why we picked up a method of experiencing things through other people's eyes.

Of course, there were moments of weakness, which only reinforced my parents warnings.

[orleans]

8. so is that the word you were trying to think of? n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Yep.

Hadn't thought about it in so long, that the word slipped out of my mind.

[orleans]

11. glad the mystery is solved. i hate it when i'm trying to think of a word &

i can't seem to get it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. You are not alone....

I did the same thing.
I always seemed to be standing on the side, watching others, whatever they were doing, in a general sense.

I know there are a lot of people who would describe themselves as watchers rather than participants in certain areas of life.
Seemed logical to me, then and now.
Seemed to offer a faster learning curve, don'tcha know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. You have to learn from other people's mistakes

because you can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

[Wounded Bear]

19. This...

is one of my favorite aphorisms. If only I could live it.

[Callmecrazy]

10. In other words...

"The second mouse gets the cheese."

[Xipe Totec]

13. Survivor. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

14. +1

[elleng]

15. Smart

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My thought exactly, my dear elleng! n/t

[KMOD]

23. +2 Smart, indeed.

[Major Nikon]

24. There are three types of people in order of smartness

1) Those who learn from other's mistakes
2) Those who learn from their own mistakes
3) Those who never learn

[Brigid]

17. I would call them . . .

Wise.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Yep. Me, too. n/t

[BlueJazz]

20. Democrats ?

[UTUSN]

21. A TaterHologram?!1 n/t

[oldandhappy]

22. Smart Alert Attentive

[Miles Archer]

25. I call that person "Jeb Bush."