you hit it right there...


I think it has a lot of do with a little of all above, and intelligence and how you carry yourself.


Not everyone gains wisdom with age...unfortunately
and not everyone gains wisdom with life experience...unfortunately

Some people never choose to learn.

Common sense, logic, courtesy, selflessness and compassion go a long way in this life and some will never get that fact.

Some of the most educated people are not the smartest.

It's all up to the person and what they are willing to do and learn from what they have experienced, seen, and been offered in this life and the choices they make.

Life is a continual learning experience --- if you let it be, when you stop learning and growing you stop living.

I think a person of any age, with a sense of self, can offer input to another. The true wisdom is demonstrated by the person seeking the input. They can choose to accept advice blindly, or accept the advice and weigh it against their own set of circumstances, life experience and general attitude towards life and then make a sound decision.

When I offer input/advice to another - that's all it is. It is their choice to use that information as they wish. What I may perceive as a mistake on their part, isn't necessarily so - it's just a choice they made.

I've lived a lot in my 38 years...one of the most important lessons I've learned is the people are who they are and they do what they do. I don't always have to agree or understand.

Another important lesson I've learned is, just when I think I have it all figured out, I'm in for a bounty of experiences that will prove me wrong.

well put {{{Montana}}}

it's those times when we think we got it all figured out that break the everyday monotony in our lives and keep us humble

(((Fran)))

Ain't THAT the truth....dammit.

Of course wisdom comes with age. Wisdom is cherished beyond any intelligence. Even as intelligence can be more easier to obtain than wisdom, that too takes time (which follows with age).

As for Wisdom, it takes a balanced mind to grasp all there is to gain. Most older folks, know that when there is summer, so will follow winter. If you smile, know that later you shall cry. If the wind blows east, it will come again west.


This seems simple enough, though it is with inquiring minds do the most wise of individuals challenge life's lessons to develop their philosophies and share this knowledge to pass down to those..... Less Fortunate

Some individuals simply walk the earth without a listening mind. They simply eat, drink, and sleep like animals. Taking all this wonderful world and life has to offer them. In turn, their heart and mind are not of the same, and so they seek easy entertainment in foolishness.

Those are my thoughts on Wisdom. Come back next week, where we show you how to properly, remove silverware from a running garbage disposal! Til next time!

It's no revelation to anyone with any degree of wisdom that the more we experience and become wiser for it, the more we realize that we don't know crap. The smartest among us are the quickest to admit this. The surrender is liberating AND downed defenses of ego allow room for perspective. There are reasons that there are cliches like "from the mouths of babes".

How sad it would be to know "everything" and realize there is nothing left to learn. How tragic for those who think they do, and close themselves off from true treasures.

As much as I have learned linguistic restraint with those younger than I, I still have my quiet internal battle of condescention; that inner dialogue that arrogantly says, "Ha, if he only knew what I know", or "wow, poor kid is going to have to learn that lesson", or "he's in for a rude awakening" etc., etc.

I say if "I" don't challenge my own arrogance and perception, if "I" don't check my ego and remember that my experience (even when I learned my lessons) is completely unique, "I'm" the one who is in for the rude awakening.

The irony of being on a soap box, saying "don't get on your soapbox" doesn't escape me....but 2 very condensed and paraphrased things...The first I remember more from the movie
"The Fugitive" than anything (again paraphrased/prolly mutilated) but about:

A semi driver not realizing that his rig was too large to clear the diameter of a mountain tunnel and getting it horribly wedged. Engineers are called to see if they can drill the rock, or hydraulically expand the the diameter of the tunnel just enough, or saw away at the payload until it cleared the top of the tunnel.......Just then an evacuee comes by the engineers with his son tugging at him. "Daddy, Daddy, don't these things get smaller (pointing at the tires).

The engineers roll their eyes, flatten the tires, and have the truck out within 40 minutes.


The other one is my niece telling me that she didn't care for a certain bumper sticker. She said, "mean people don't suck, they are just HURT". GULP!

I'm trying not to just listen to those whom I respect. I'm trying to respect EVERYONE...and listen.

It comes from both or a mix of .. but also some people are just 'wise'. I've known a couple people in my life who had wisdom wayyyyyyyy beyond their years & didn't even have that much experience with anything ..

They just had a ability of taking knowledge and applying it to situations at hand. THAT'S a gift. Plain and simple.


So 3 different ways ..

beachfarmer

great, beautiful and fitting words!!!

"I'm trying not to just listen to those whom I respect. I'm trying to respect EVERYONE...and listen."

Agreed.

Thank you fran...Montana!

I'm listening

does that mean you want more
just kidding

most times the best words are those that are left unsaid (rummaging through my head for a saying to match the depth of yours)

Stop!....but Thank You

I'm just curious as to peoples thoughts on the nature/nurture aspect of wisdom.

WOW! Thank you all for your comments!