2008年11月17日 星期一

Wisdom

"Wisdom" is important to us, because it can help us to make decisions or deal with problems. However, if wisdom is so crucial, how do we develop it? And why are there some people getting more wisdom than others?

At first, what is wisdom? Wisdom defined in the Wikipedia is knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well towards finding solutions to problems. We are easier to know how to develop it while we understand what it means.


Although everyone will be older and get more experiences as time goes by, it don't mean everyone will be wiser or older person must have more wisdom than younger. But why? I think that knowledge, discretion, and understanding are not only generated by ages, but also created by the efforts you made. We have to learn diligently, pay attention to our live experience, and think how to thinking.

Finally, it is about the capacity to apply these qualities well. I think having knowledge and experience is not enough. When knowledge, experience, and so on are not used, they just like veils, not power. Therefore, another key point is how to use them. We can use the way of try and error or make a plan to handle problems with those qualities. Whatever we do, we must create more opportunities to practice using knowledge and experience in order to develop a capacity of leveraging power.

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