There is a difference between what you can do and what you should do.

You can be extraordinarily smart and simultaneously profoundly unwise.

Wisdom is what keeps courage from becoming recklessness.

Impulse optimizes for now.

Wisdom optimizes for the long game.

Wisdom is choosing what is right, not just what is possible. I want to start this

podcast today with a distinction that took me years to build in the field. Honestly, it took me years of

making really bad choices to fully understand this. There is a difference between what you can do

and what you should do.

And that gap between capability and right action is where most good people, highly trained people and well-intentioned people, cause damage that they didn't mean to cause.

They maybe had the strength, they had great skills, they even had courage, but they're missing

something that no training evolution taught them before. And that is wisdom. Today I'm going to

talk about what wisdom actually is, why it's different from knowledge and experience, and

crucially, how you can build more of it let's get into it welcome back to the mark

divine show i am mark devine your host retired navy seal commander founder of seal fit and unbelievable

mine and happy to host this sheepdog strong series of solo podcasts i'm deep into part two now so if you haven't even listened to part one, go back to the

beginning. There's some great stuff. But in part two, we're talking about the core skills of

the sheepdog protector. So far, we've covered command presence, which is the ability to project

calm authority before you speak, and then clarity under pressure, which is to be regulating your nervous system

so you can think straight when the pressure comes and others start to break.

So now we're going to add this third skill of wisdom.

In many ways, this is the most complex.

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