We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

We probably all seen instances on the news or even in our own lives where we've seen rules

and regulations enforced that just didn't make any sense for a particular situation.

What's funny and tragic at the same time is that people enforcing these rules and regulations

and particular situations will tell themselves and even other people like this doesn't make

any sense, but I have to do it because that's what the rules say.

Hands are tied.

And you've probably seen this in your own life.

You see these imbirocracies, school systems, probably in large corporations, you probably

work at a job where your company has just a weird rule that just doesn't make any sense,

but you have to abide by it because that's what the rule is or you'll get fired.

It was my guest today on the podcast, a co-author to book where they make the case that we've

let rules and regulations swallow our lives and this has resulted in us losing the ability

to use wisdom.

His name is Barry Schwartz.

He's the co-author of the book, Practical Wisdom, the right way to do the right thing.

And he discusses what's happened in the past, I mean really this past 75 years where rules

and regulations have enveloped our lives, the ill effects of that.

And then he makes the case that we need to go back to what Air Stoddle championed as the

way to make decisions in our life.

And that is using what he called for nieces or roughly translated to practical wisdom.

So today on the podcast, we're going to discuss what practical wisdom is, how we can nurture

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