991 What is Wisdom?

<p><span lang="en-US">People want to think they have wisdom in their DNA, not that </span><span lang="en-US">it</span><span lang="en-US"> comes from knowledge, experience & self-awareness, because those things require tremendous effort & time, and there’s lots of people with more than them. </span><span lang="en-US">Wisdom is defined as breath of knowledge times depth of experience times-self awareness. </span><span lang="en-US">Looking into a person’s history, we can usually discern these metrics</span><span lang="en-US">: educational degrees </span><span lang="en-US">& professional licenses </span><span lang="en-US">demonstrate </span><span lang="en-US">breath & depth of </span><span lang="en-US">knowledge; </span><span lang="en-US">entrepreneurship, responsibility, ambition</span><span lang="en-US">, travel & art demonstrate experience;</span><span lang="en-US"> and a happy </span><span lang="en-US">& fulfilled </span><span lang="en-US">life indicates both internal and external </span><span lang="en-US">awareness. By measuring these things we can determine that, h</span>istorically, Benjamin Franklin & Richard Burton were wise; as was Francis Bacon, Leonardo di Vinci, Marcus Cicero, Herbert Simon, Imhoptep, Francis Galton, Albert Schweitzer, Avicenna, Baha ad-Din al-Amili, and many others that we don’t know because they weren’t famous.</p> <p>In fact, most people confuse fame with wisdom. Steve Jobs wasn’t wise even though he appeared to be because he was earth-shaking. Gandhi, or any guru, preach only confusion, and live empty lives. Dian Fossey was certainly not wise; she lived alone in Africa and knew nothing about anything but gorillas. A lot of people have self-awareness, entrepreneurship, experience & knowledge in one or two areas, but don’t know anything about anything else; or have limited travel & life experience, which means they couldn’t synthesize advice from the entire panorama of life. It’s actually easy to identify wisdom but quite difficult to find wise people; however, I'd like to know more about Elon Musk?</p>