One Apple A Day #831 - Wisdom
This morning I want to start a little new challenge. A few months ago, I bought a set of cards about strengths. They are great in workshops or coaching sessions to identify our strengths so we can use them as levers to create changes in our lives or to solve our challenges.
Unfortunately, due to this pandemic, I haven't been able to use them properly. Tired of seeing them laying on my desk, I decided to use them differently. For the next days, every morning I'll pick a card and write about it. There are quite a few cards on the deck, so I think I have enough material for the rest of this crazy year.
Anyway, without farther ado, let's begin with the first card; wisdom.
The dictionary says that it is the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments.
On Wikipedia, they add understanding, common sense and insight to the recipe. And these are three fundamental ingredients because they make quite clear that wisdom is not about knowing a lot.
It's not the amount of knowledge or experiences that make you wise. It is the ability to sense into what you know and don't know and source your words, choices and actions from there.
I think we are wise anytime we remove the duality between sensing and making sense.
Uh, time flies. I need to use it more wisely next time.
Let's close this post with some wisdom from someone wiser than me.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov