Wisdom = Knowledge + Experience + Reflection.
Knowledge is not wisdom, although plenty of education helps. Experience is where you test the education, and see in what measure it is applied to this situation and that, and how it is best mixed with various disciplines and people skills. Reflection is where you can see why things worked or didn’t, and learn from it all.
With wisdom, we can understand, and develop intuition based on memory of our knowledge and experience in action.
Wisdom is the gradual revision of one’s expectations through learning and trial, aligning them with current and future reality.
With wisdom, we are seldom surprised and never shocked by what happens.
How much wisdom have you acquired?
“Wisdom is the gradual revision of one’s expectations through learning and trial, aligning them with current and future reality.“ —-Wow! That is a great definition,
Larry…Huge Congratulations on 16 years of Think Daily!
Thanks so much for all the insight and wisdom you’ve freely shared with all of your readers. Your example of dedication and determination has been tremendous.
Thank you! Enjoy this milestone day.
Cheers!
I’ve always understood Knowledge to be your accumulated understanding of all the things you’ve learned and tried in life (i.e., education/learning in any form coupled with experiences, good or bad, in any setting), and Wisdom is the timely APPLICATION of that knowledge in the proper context.
As someone said long before my time, ‘Sometimes wisdom comes with age; sometimes age comes all by itself.’ 🙂