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Why smart people often do stupid things: Intelligence isn't a substitute for wisdom.
Intelligence is the capacity to learn.
Wisdom is converting learning into good judgment.
Using brainpower requires willpower. It takes self-control to choose future gains over current impulses.
Researchers who have investigated wisdom have found some common patterns in the understanding of wisdom in very different cultures and civilisations across millennia,16 usually identifying it with behavioural traits such as calm, detachment, avoidance of impulse, and an ability to see multiple perspectives.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
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Isa • 2 cards
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Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking
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Wisdom lies between the words, behind the concepts. It’s older than the mind. It may be reached through the mind, like sunlight through a prism, but it doesn’t attach itself anywhere. It emerges spontaneously, right from the heart of creation. Wisdom is alive.
The 64 Ways, Richard Rudd
Gene Key 48 – Wisdom
Wisdom doesn’t consist of knowing specific facts or possessing knowledge of a field. It consists of knowing how to treat knowledge: being confident but not too confident; adventurous but grounded.
David Brooks • The Social Animal
Wise Words
Tom Scott • 5 cards