Building Experiential Wisdom

Intellect and its essence

Intelligence does not conquer all. More often than not, the apparent high graders do not classify as emotionally intelligent. Intellectual arrogance is the seed of downfall while humility of the unwise can work miracles owing to the prospects it offers for learning. There isn’t much left to discover if one knows it all. Intelligence ought to be applied perceptively towards pertinent outcomes. Wisdom calls for the wit to apply prejudgments optimally. As Einstein rightly put it, common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired in the formative years of life. Therapy that inculcates common sense is the need of the hour!

Don't be a fool......

Wisdom
No one is born astute. Wisdom isn’t effectively a subject taught in school, cataloged as a specialty in a college or a mandate category in a job interview. Yet the world desires, respects and salutes wisdom. The complexity of intelligence and ways to build it has been the focus of research and study worldwide. At a rudimentary level, foolishness is simply an inability to make careful choices. Lack of intelligence is in fact described as stupidity. One may be intelligent and yet act foolish at times owing to momentary deficits in reasoning (this is rather common.) The wise man is not one who knows it all; rather he is one who accepts that he doesn't!

WOW: The path to success

Winning has gained prominence in today’s world; however victory is vital to the human who wins, not to the world itself. The world merely prepares for and enjoys the game. Success enhances self-regard; however success as well as self-regard, are misnomers. The fun in the game and self-growth that occurs through the process is the ultimate goal. There are several paths, some seem appropriate to few, others view them as inadequate. Reality is static but percepts of it vary. Hence there are innumerable ‘right’ paths for different people. More so, they are defined as ‘right’ only after they give expected outcomes. You would never know what’s right, right at the outset!