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Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/helen-garnertheguardian.com
A recent study found that “Wisdom is the best predictor of life satisfaction in both men and women and can offset the influence of negative age on life satisfaction. Wisdom has a greater influence on life satisfaction in older adulthood than health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, environment, or social engagement.”
Thirty years of wisdom... See more
Thirty years of wisdom... See more
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A simpler, more elegant definition, still compatible with Grossmann’s, comes from Tom Morgan of LE:
I love parsimonious definitions, which is why I favour Tom’s over the academic ones.
“Know what to do, and when.”
I love parsimonious definitions, which is why I favour Tom’s over the academic ones.
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
Don't forget to fertilize your environment. It's that simple. Spread kind words and respect to everyone you meet. Only then can the meadow around you flourish. This is needed more than ever.
According to Igor Grossmann1, a Toronto-based psychologist and wisdom researcher, perspective-taking is necessary for wisdom. At the heart of wisdom is what he calls “perspectival meta-cognition,” which includes the ability to consider multiple viewpoints. This can be dangerous to agency maximizers, as it risks disrupting the clarity that a... See more
Peter Limberg • How to Win Friends and Get Things Done ... With Wisdom?
An enlightened being sees their agony without diminishing its reality. In other words, it doesn’t just turn away from it—but, on the other hand, simultaneously sees everything, including that agony [and] including hell, actually, as bubbles of bliss in an ocean of bliss. That’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that the ordinary mind cannot get... See more
Nirvana and Samsara Are the Same Thing - Sounds True
Wisdom refers to the slow accumulation of personal values that work well for people living in different kinds of ways.
Joe Edelman • Human Values
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha