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!
Fallacies of intelligence
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 seemingly knows it all. Intelligence ought to be applied perceptively towards pertinent outcomes. Truly acumen isn’t the opposite of foolishness. They frequently co-exist. 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. What fools essentially lack is ‘common sense’.
What makes a fool foolish?
The question rather judges what makes any man foolish. Mistakes rarely ever qualify as imprudence, their repetition indeed does. One who errs is human; the one who fails to learn from that error is a fool. Experiential learning is superior to all forms of erudition. Openness to self-improvement and desire for self-growth characterizes wisdom.
How would you identify a fool?
Fools characteristically identify themselves. They need no introduction. The importance of each of the words in the description below connotes folly.
The question rather judges what makes any man foolish. Mistakes rarely ever qualify as imprudence, their repetition indeed does. One who errs is human; the one who fails to learn from that error is a fool. Experiential learning is superior to all forms of erudition. Openness to self-improvement and desire for self-growth characterizes wisdom.
How would you identify a fool?
Fools characteristically identify themselves. They need no introduction. The importance of each of the words in the description below connotes folly.
- Fools eternally follow only their own rules
- They have no restrain over their emotions
- They have unremitting and chronic pride
- They frequently disregard wrong doings
- Fools are brave only at the wrong instants
- They get aggressive quickly and strongly
- They can’t plan to better the past or future
- They think there is none wiser than them
Overcoming foolish tendencies
Simplicity may classify people as uninformed and naïve, however the gullible, immature, unnecessarily curious and the volatile angry lot do warrant alternate judgments. It’s inessential to open ones mouth at every passing thought to offer personal verdicts without base. Discretion in thought, speech and behavior takes one higher on the ladder of prudence.
There is a choice
The wise truly profit on account of the foolish. They observe more than they speak, optimize all their senses to derive sense from the world, never repeat mistakes albeit they make new ones and take lessons from them too. The sage who deems himself wise, and the fool who realizes his folly; both cease to be who they essentially are and cross over. There is always a choice; smartness lies in simply making the right one…
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