One Apple A Day #302
Deepening into Own Wisdom.
When I was a kid, I thought that wisdom was a gift of time.
The more you live, the more you become wise.
To be honest, I wasn’t entirely wrong.
Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement.
It takes time to collect experiences and knowledge.
The more you’ve lived, the more time you had.
But there is a caveat.
Collecting is just part of the process.
Something that will happen even when you’re not aware.
It is like throwing stuff in your basement.
If you don’t know it’s there, it won’t serve you much.
We need to dig and explore our experiences and our knowledge to distil the wisdom from them.
It takes some effort, I know.
We will have to make some choices.
Decide what we want to keep and what doesn’t serve us anymore.
In going through this process myself, I learned two things.
The first is that wisdom can be trained, like a muscle.
The more we distil wisdom from our experiences the more we learn to get the best out of them.
The second is that we are born with an infinite source of wisdom.
The human being I am today is the result of a long process started millions of years ago.
Just look at our body, it is the results of millions of years of evolution.
Or our culture, that we inherited from our ancestors.
There is an infinite source of wisdom in each one of us.
We just need to learn to listen deeply.