SAT Pronpt: Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties?

Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties? That depends on how you justify true learning. If it is book work like arithmetic and vocabulary, then no. But if you categorize true learning as I do which would be life lessons such as is deception ever acceptable, how far is too far, or wondering if you can ever really trust anyone but yourself I think that those might be lessons that must be learned by making your own mistakes. Now it is true people say that you have to learn from the mistakes of your father, mother, brother, teacher, or friends but sometimes that is not simply enough for example my friend had a friend who was practically a sister long ago that gave her a piece of advice she said “once you get to your happy place, stop” and growing up my friend was content enough to listen but when the time came when she really needed to heed her advice she thought what could one more hurt? And wound up puking on the couch. So in theory listening to other people who have “been there” is a good idea but humans are and teenagers especially are the kinds of beings who need to defy everyone and make their own mistakes. Another reason I think you cannot truly learn without going through hardships is because of the saying “in one ear and out the other” in so many cases this has proved true to me for example I will be sitting in class attempting to listen and I hear all the words but if I try to think back two seconds then I have no idea what my teacher has just said but I believe that if something happened to make me think about why I would need to know that specific piece of information I would comprehend it better.