Episode 1: Wisdom vs Intelligence

What's the difference between someone who's smart and someone who's wise? If you can you be intelligent without being wise, can you be wise without also being intelligent? If wisdom's so essential for taking good decisions, what's driving our exclusive obsession with intelligence? And which is really more helpful in our daily lives? Igor describes some surprising fighter-plane-based scenarios when wisdom is as useless as intelligence and Charles explains how open-ended questioning in the classroom comes with its own unique set of risks. Welcome to Episode 1 of the On Wisdom podcast.

Episode 1 of the On Wisdom podcast, hosted by Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann, titled "Episode 1: Wisdom vs Intelligence" was published on April 20, 2018 and runs 61 minutes.

April 20, 2018 ·61m · On Wisdom

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What's the difference between someone who's smart and someone who's wise? If you can you be intelligent without being wise, can you be wise without also being intelligent? If wisdom's so essential for taking good decisions, what's driving our exclusive obsession with intelligence? And which is really more helpful in our daily lives? Igor describes some surprising fighter-plane-based scenarios when wisdom is as useless as intelligence and Charles explains how open-ended questioning in the classroom comes with its own unique set of risks. Welcome to Episode 1 of the On Wisdom podcast.Links:Wisdom and Intelligence: The Nature and Function of Knowledge in the Later Years - Vivian Clayton, 1983Herbert Simon | The EconomistGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - WikipediaJ. Intell. | Free Full-Text | The Strengths of Wisdom Provide Unique Contributions to Improved Leadership, Sustainability, Inequality, Gross National Happiness, and Civic Discourse in the Face of Contemporary World ProblemsA model of educational leadership: Wisdom, intelligence, and creativity, synthesized: International Journal of Leadership in Education: Vol 8, No 4A route to well-being: intelligence versus wise reasoning. - PubMed - NCBIg factor (psychometrics) - Wikipedia

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What's the difference between someone who's smart and someone who's wise? If you can you be intelligent without being wise, can you be wise without also being intelligent? If wisdom's so essential for taking good decisions, what's driving our exclusive obsession with intelligence? And which is really more helpful in our daily lives? Igor describes some surprising fighter-plane-based scenarios when wisdom is as useless as intelligence and Charles explains how open-ended questioning in the classroom comes with its own unique set of risks. Welcome to Episode 1 of the On Wisdom podcast.

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