Wisdom
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Wisdom
Optimistic Nihilism
youtube.comThe essence of wisdom is to act in harmony with nature.
Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
Remember that every story has another side. Wisdom is the ability to see both sides and weigh them appropriately.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Wisdom refers to the slow accumulation of personal values that work well for people living in different kinds of ways.
Joe Edelman • Human Values
Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
Helen Garnertheguardian.com
The Keatsian endeavor has never been popular, but is particularly unfashionable today. Religious fundamentalists reject it on the grounds that revelation and commitment are needed to orient oneself in the world. The amorality of a poet who is a “thoroughfare for all thoughts” risks heresy or destabilization. Tell me where you stand, where your loya... See more
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
When it comes to psychological researchers, I prefer Igor Grossmann’s definition:
Holding a certain value, or “attentional protocols,” as axiologist Joe Edelman understands them, places one’s attention on a particular aspect of life. Your values influence how you see the world and how you mo... See more
“The meta-value that adjudicates between all other values.”
Holding a certain value, or “attentional protocols,” as axiologist Joe Edelman understands them, places one’s attention on a particular aspect of life. Your values influence how you see the world and how you mo... See more
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
My own definition is similar but has a jazzier tone, more in line with the Less Foolishism my readers are accustomed to:
“Existential” here means what is deeply important to one’s life, and “wayfinding” means finding one’s way. I find the literature on ordinary wayfinding, the kind where one navigates physical environments, qu... See more
Existential wayfinding.
“Existential” here means what is deeply important to one’s life, and “wayfinding” means finding one’s way. I find the literature on ordinary wayfinding, the kind where one navigates physical environments, qu... See more