<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">William Flynn Wallace</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 12:03 PM<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">My Quora answer to what is wise;</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><p>This is your answer in a nutshell: a wise person can put just about anything into perspective, into context. </p><p>When to get angry; when not to; when to feel nervous and when not to ; when to take somebody else seriously and when not to.</p><p>And so on for hundreds of situations. The wise person knows that most situations resolve themselves with little or no help and most of our worries just stress us and don’t solve anything. </p><p>A wise person may get extremely upset, but it’s usually about injustice and inequality in the world, not their own or others’ personal problems. A global perspective.</p><p>A wise person never trivializes a problem, even if he knows that it is really trivial, even if it’s a small child who is upset about a bunch of nothing (teens too here).</p><p>It is very difficult for a young person to be wise, They just haven’t seen enough of the world to make judgments as to the importance of situations and just how to go about trying to fix them.</p><p>But age does not guarantee wisdom. That takes all the kinds of intelligence there are, and a lifetime of thinking about people without resorting to cognitive biases, stereotypes, and so on.</p><p>Now whether the above is actually wise is not for me to say, but that’s my take on it.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (Yeah, I am full of it - chutzpah, that is - I am 78 - I am going to take a shot at anything)</span></p><p>Opinions welcome<br></p><p><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</span><br></p></div></div>
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