you have to invest in things, um, in which the feedback is always real.

What's up guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So this is, I want to speak specifically

to dads who do a lot of abstract work. You might be in management. You might be a pastor. Um,

you know, there's a lot of, a lot of us, you might be any kind of teaching role.

There's a, there's a specific thing I want you to be careful of, and this is something that I've had to really try to figure out on my own as well.

And that is that if you do not, if you do not have in your life something, like an unforgiving endeavor that gives you feedback

that isn't based on, like some expertise coming in telling you

if you did a good job or a manager or somebody, you know, a boss,

then oftentimes you don't, you're not living close to reality enough.

And so, and this is really,

you kind of, this is kind of like blue collar wisdom versus like, this is kind of a blue

collar, white collar problem. In other words, people that have, you know, that plumbers and

carpenters, they live in a world where they're constantly getting real world feedback about shortcuts they're taking that

aren't working. And this actually makes them more wise. And that's the reason why there really isn't

a strong correlation between wisdom and intelligence. Because oftentimes wisdom comes from

participating in actions and endeavors that give you that real

world feedback.

And my favorite example of this in all of literature is Samwise Gamge.

So he's not the sharpest, whatever, tool in the shed, right, in the Lord of the Rings,

but he comes out with these crazy wise things. He's always wise in these,

in these movies and in the books. And Tolkien is really describing kind of that blue-collar

wisdom or just another way to think of it that I think is applicable to everyone is the wisdom

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