#465 Does Wisdom Come With Age (Maybe)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Does Wisdom Come With Age (Maybe)
Does wisdom come with age? Maybe. While there's a comforting adage in the silver lining of a wrinkled brow, age alone isn't a ticket to the sage club. True wisdom requires more than mere chronometers clicking; it's a dance of experience, reflection, and a dash of humility. Sure, years gather knowledge, a library accumulated on life's dusty shelves. But wisdom whispers in the margins, born from grappling with that knowledge, turning it over in open hands, and accepting its flickering shadows. Some souls, young or old, have an uncanny knack for this waltz, while others, even with age's gentle hand, remain tangled in the threads of their experience. So, does age bring wisdom? It can, like fertile soil waiting for the right seed. But in the end, it's the heart's soil that truly matters, its openness to life's lessons, not the mere passage of time.
(Bollywood movie talked about in podcast: "Lage Raho Munda Bhai" ((Keep Going, Munna Bro)), 2006)
New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist
🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www.HappinessPodcast.org
💛 Do you ever wonder what it takes to lead a peaceful, happy life? Are you curious about the specific steps involved in a self-actualized, limitless life? Are you struggling with anxiety or depression? Or are you just plain tired and want some help?
➡️ I explore all these concerns and more every week on the Happiness Podcast, which has been downloaded over 17 million times since its inception. Happiness does not happen by chance, it happens when we take specific actions in our lives to create it
💯 Welcome to my channel! My name is Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D. I am an author of 13 books, I am a TV show host, Psychology Today blogger, and corporate trainer. I have been studying the actions it takes to reach the highest levels of human achievement for decades, and I would love to share what I've learned with you! My Happiness Podcast is entirely free to listen to, so why not give it a try!
➡️ So, come and explore the Happiness Podcast, my books, and Psychology Today blog, the specific steps to take so that you can soar in your life!
*************
✅ Follow Dr. Robert Puff and the Happiness Podcast on social media:
Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/robertpuffjr/
LinkedIn ▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctorpuff
Twitter ▶️ https://twitter.com/HappinesPodcast
Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/HappinessPodcast/
📧 Email Dr. Robert Puff: [email protected]
📞 Contact Dr. Robert Puff: 1-714-337-4889
📲 WhatsApp Dr. Robert Puff: 1-714-337-4889
✅ Dr. Puff, Clinical Psychologist: https://www.DoctorPuff.com
� Music: By Kevin MacLeod
#doeswisdomcomewithage #wisdom #happiness #happinesspodcast #howtobehappy #happy #drrobertpuff #findyourhappiness #happinesscomesfromwithin #clinicalpsychologist #HappinessPodcast #newportbeachpsychologist #becomehappy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Does wisdom necessarily come with age? Maybe. I think it's a pretty popular adage that as |
| 0:19.8 | we get older we're probably going to get wiser. I mean, after all, we have more experiences, |
| 0:25.8 | we see more, we've gone through more, and we should, presumably, be wiser as we get |
| 0:31.8 | older. |
| 0:33.0 | But if we're somewhat observant, |
| 0:35.0 | we probably also know in many cases this is not true. |
| 0:40.0 | This is simple enough to prove, |
| 0:42.0 | and I like it when you can prove it for yourself. |
| 0:45.0 | Think about the people in your life that are at the we end of their life. |
| 0:49.0 | And are your relatives all wise? |
| 0:53.8 | Probably not. |
| 0:55.9 | But I do believe most of us |
| 0:58.0 | want to become more wise as we get older. |
| 1:00.7 | I think this is a good goal. |
| 1:02.4 | I think this is a good goal I think this is a realistic goal and yet so many people |
| 1:06.0 | don't seem to achieve it why is that so in today's talk we want to explore two |
| 1:11.6 | things one why don't we often get wiser as we get |
| 1:16.3 | older and two, how do we become more wise as we get older because I believe this is a very good goal to strive for. |
| 1:26.0 | If you go to your local dictionary I think you'll find that it breaks wisdom into three parts. |
| 1:32.0 | One is the quality of having experiences, two, |
| 1:35.8 | knowledge, and three good judgment. What it means by that is I believe is that we have |
| 1:41.9 | experiences as we go through life and through these experiences |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.