The Experience Library
Learn from what others have lived. Share what you’ve learned along the way.
Read what others learned. Write what you learned.
A public archive of lessons — reflections people earned the hard way, written carefully, and moderated to ensure it's useful. Search for what you're facing, or browse by the area of life.
Choose what matches your life right now
Quick starting points if you don't know where to begin.
Browse by domain
Browse by the part of life it relates to.
A shared record is a kind of inheritance
People have always tried to preserve what they learned — sometimes through sacred texts, sometimes through philosophy, letters, and stories. This is a modern attempt at the same act: gathering lived lessons in a way anyone can read, regardless of background.
The aim is simply to gather and share life lessons, and to learn from one another.
Leave one honest lesson behind
If you've learned something the hard way — something that cost you time, money, pride, peace, or relationships — write down what you've learned. Someone else will find it at the right time.