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This is what you must be chasing.

Being smart is knowing facts.

Being intelligent is having a mind that can solve hard problems or do complex things.

Being creative is the ability to generate new and beautiful art. This is all wonderful and important. But we know it is not the same thing as wisdom, because wisdom is all those things

and more. Wisdom is being smart, the possession of knowledge and facts and insight. It's

intelligence, its intuition,

its experience, and education, philosophy, and practical understanding, awareness and wit, perspective,

persipacity, and yes, the prudence that the ancients sometimes called wisdom. It is also

humility, self-awareness, patience, curiosity, and empathy. Epictetus and

Marcus Aurelius had wisdom. So did Gandhi. So did Abraham Lincoln. There were people who knew more,

people with more impressive minds, but no one saw further, no one went deeper. And they fused this wisdom with the other virtues,

with courage and discipline and justice. And more important, perhaps most impressively,

they were able to take this wisdom, this virtue, and do one of the hardest things there is

to do with it. Bring it into the world. Were they born this way?

No, they were not. Wisdom might be hard to define, but one thing we can all agree on is that no one

is born with it. Wisdom is cultivated. Wisdom, as we have been saying, as I title the new book,

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