Sublime

Use your brain, not your skull. There is no heroism in whacking things with your head. That’s dumb. Trust your feelings, ask,

As Jean Piaget said, being smart is not ‘knowing lots‘;2 it is how you think, feel and behave at the moments when your accumulated store of knowledge and skill doesn’t give you a ready answer, and you have to ‘think on your feet’.

Wisdom included insight and intuition as well as definitions and arguments (the true); it included action, living well, ethical and political wisdom (the good), not just professorial knowledge; and it included Plato’s idea that a life surrounded by beautiful things promotes the beauty of the soul (the beautiful). The person who managed