It's more about listening than talking.
...Too often the public depictions of wisdom involve remote, elderly sages who you approach with trepidation — and who give the perfect life-altering advice — Yoda, Dumbledore, Solomon. When a group of influential academics sought to define wisdom, they focused on how much knowledge a wise person had accumulated. Wisdom, they wrote, was "an expert knowledge system concerning the fundamental pragmatics of life."
But when wisdom has shown up in my life, it's been less a body of knowledge and more a way of interacting, less the dropping of secret information, more a way of relating that helped me stumble to my own realizations.
Wisdom is different from knowledge. Montaigne pointed out you can be knowledgeable with another person's knowledge, but you can't be wise with another person's wisdom. Wisdom has an embodied moral element; out of your own moments of suffering comes a compassionate regard for the frailty of others...
David Brooks
But when wisdom has shown up in my life, it's been less a body of knowledge and more a way of interacting, less the dropping of secret information, more a way of relating that helped me stumble to my own realizations.
Wisdom is different from knowledge. Montaigne pointed out you can be knowledgeable with another person's knowledge, but you can't be wise with another person's wisdom. Wisdom has an embodied moral element; out of your own moments of suffering comes a compassionate regard for the frailty of others...
David Brooks
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