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So, like it or not, I am type A.

And no one has ever explained to me exactly what it means to be type A, but I take it to mean that I have an overdeveloped preference for order and perhaps even like a bloated desire for control.

So this means that when I'm in a car with someone who is driving erratically, I get motion sick.

And I found that the way to prevent this is to try to figure out where they're going.

So if I can know where they're going, then the motion sickness will at least be a little

bit subsided.

So in order not to make any of you who might happen to be type A motion sick,

I wanted to give you a map of where I'm going.

Just in case the way that I navigate things

is different from the way that you navigate things,

you'll at least have a sense of where I'm intending to go.

Okay. Since the title of the retreat least have a sense of where I'm intending to go. All right.

Since the title of the retreat is practical wisdom in unpractical times, my overall goal or

destination is to support your ability to act with practical wisdom, that is with prudence.

In my experience, it is far easier to act prudently if you know what acting prudently means.

Also, it's easier to grasp what acting prudently means if you know why acting prudently matters. So the map of my

presentation is going to follow those three question words. Why, what, and then how. First, I'll look at why we should care about the virtue of prudence at all,

or for virtue in general, for that matter.

Second, what is involved in acting prudently?

And here I'll look at first what the virtue of prudence is as a whole and then articulated

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