The brain is like a flower and wisdom is its fragrance. Can you even explain and teach fragrance no matter how many ways it is described. The only way you can know fragrance is by smelling the flower. Again in order to have fragrance you have to cultivate the flower. For superior fragrance you will have to nurture the flower by giving it better fertilizer, watering appropriately, exposing it to the right amount of sunlight etc. Similarly to cultivate wisdom you will have to find ways of educating the brain to a super mature +2 emotionally intelligent level. A +2 brain radiates wisdom effortlessly just like a rose produces fragrance naturally. A +2 brain is a wise brain. So when you read books on wisdom its like reading books on fragrance. As my friend Eddie Morrow from Houston said you will really know as much about fragrance after reading the book as much as you knew before reading the book. Current wisdom teaching is mostly educating people to do good deeds and even educating how these good deeds can be done. But doing good and becoming good are two different entities. I am proposing making the human brain so super emotionally intelligent that it knows and understands wisdom and becomes wise. Wisdom is like the fragrance of the rose, you can describe the fragrance all you want but you cannot know it until you experience it by smelling a real flower. In order to create the fragrance you have to focus on growing the healthy rose. In order to create a wise human being focus on developing the brain to its best possible emotional intelligence. While discussing wisdom and wisdom education the main producer of wisdom, the brain is not even mentioned. You can know wisdom all you want but unless your brain develops to its full emotional capacity you cannot become wise. So one can teach wisdom by showing the student how to actually physically change his brain into a wisdom producing organ.
What exactly is a +2 level? On what scale? Link please. Really? What evidence is their that physically changing the brain will bring this about? How would one go about "physically changing the brain"? Short of a lump hammer, that is.
Wisdom is generally learned from life experiences...."The hard way"..learning from your own experiences...or "The easy way"...learning from other's experience.
Yep. As we grow and mature, our knowledge and experience are like we are reading books on a library shelf. When we become adults, it is as though we have read all of the books on several shelves in the library. When we are...'older' it is as though we have read all of the books in a wing of the library. When we are asked a question, we can give the answer right away, though we may not be able to say which book we first read it in or which shelf that book was on. The answer to the question is "intuitive" and it is based on our "wisdom". This is a vast subject and one that is not easily summed up in a few words.
David Starr Jordan: Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it. Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman: It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential. George Burns: Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. Immanuel Kant: Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Marlene Dietrich: I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
In my opinion wisdom is something that only comes with age, and if you want to get wise grow old and learn from mistakes. then share the wisdom you have acquired.
