To become wise, study the consequences of fools.

Welcome to the ultimate guide to wisdom.

But what is wisdom? And what is wisdom and what is the opposite of wisdom?

We're going to look at these questions in a lot of depth today, give you many answers,

and we're going to explain how to develop wisdom in yourself

should you desire to go down that path down the path of philosophy after all

philosophy is the love of wisdom. So what makes for a

philosopher and why do philosophers pursue the things that they're pursuing. Now wisdom is interesting because wisdom is

different than information. It's different than knowledge. It's different than book smarts. A lot of people go to university, but they're not necessarily wise.

Academics with PhDs, they can be good scholars,

but they aren't necessarily wise. People with high IQ also aren't necessarily wise.

So what is wisdom?

What distinguishes it from everything else? and why is it so important?

So here's how we're going to tackle this topic.

I actually sat down and I spent several days contemplating what is wisdom.

Of course I've been contemplating it on and off sort of casually for years, but like specifically for this

episode I just sat down and contemplated for a few days straight and came up with a

lot of stuff. But the issue here is that even though I'm going to give you all the answers of the results of my

contemplations, really you need to contemplate for yourself what wisdom is. Only when you generate your own

answers will it have the kind of value it needs to have for you. But here's probably something that will get your mind jogging

and think it in the right direction.

Now, I have a long list of characteristics of wisdom and wise people

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