It's said that "fools learn from experience, wise men learn from history," but that's probably because the failures and successes that an individual experiences are only one-time events and there is no certainty that they can be repeated.
There is value in learning from history because it contains a huge number of examples of success and failure, from which we can find common ground that can be applied to your current self.
In order to face the challenges you need to tackle head-on and to find the optimal solutions that can be derived from vast amounts of data, why not dive into the sea of books?
