The First Step to Wisdom: Differentiating Between Knowing, Thinking, and Believing
There was once a human attribute that was ascribed to certain folks. Most of the time, it was an observable behavior in older citizens. The attribute was known as wisdom. It was demonstrated by those who knew how they knew, then applied that knowledge to the untangling of sticky wickets and other dramatic events.
Without Experience, We Don’t Know Diddly
It could be that we have forgotten the process of knowing how we know over the past few years. To know anything, as in knowing it well enough to explain the thing to another person, requires three events. We have to hear something from an authoritative source. If we hear something from a news feed or from a YouTuber that we follow fairly regularly, we tend to think that thing is true. But we will most likely ignore the idea unless someone else we know and trust says that they also think the thing is sexy or some such. Then we might believe it to be true, but until we actually experience the thing we really do not know diddly about the thing. We may think we know and we may believe we know about the thing, but without experience, we cannot claim to know how we know.
Wisdom supposedly comes about through making enough mistakes that you finally decide to finish up with the mistake and get on with living life…
