How to Become Wise

Learn from the instructor. Find someone you respect and who emulates values and ideals that represent wisdom. You should find someone who enjoys doing things that you think are interesting and important. Ask them questions. Listen carefully to what they have to say as you will likely learn a lot from their experiences and opinions. ^[3] When you are unsure about something, ask for advice and guidance from your mentor; While you won’t necessarily agree with everything they say, they will certainly help you develop your own mindset.

• Mentors don’t have to be achievers, or who you “want to be”. The smartest person you know is probably a bartender, not a math professor. Learn how to perceive wisdom in people.

Read everything. Read the work of philosophers or social commentators. Read comics. Read Lee Child’s adventure novels. Read online or on mobile devices. Sign up for a library card. Read contemporary Irish poetry. Read Melville’s work. Read as if your life depended on it and form opinions about the things you have read and talk to others about them.

• In particular, read about your area of interest, whether it’s related to your job or your hobby. Read about other people’s experiences and learn the methods they use to deal with situations you may face.

Share with the instructor. It is a mistake to think that the wise man is the one who knows everything. Never have trouble with your own emotions, or wise people stand out from the crowd because they are emotionless. These are not true.

• When you feel sad or disappointed about something, you’ll want to share it with someone who understands. Surround yourself with wise people who are always ready to receive your feelings, who always listen to what you have to say. If you are open to them, they will be open to you as well.

Practice humility. Is “selling yourself” a wise move? The world of business and marketing has convinced us that self-promotion is a necessity, because we have made ourselves commoditized and we need good sales pitch, and business language. often reflect this. However, the act of proving to yourself and to others that you are good at something is quite different from the act of exaggerating a range of skills that are outside your comfort zone just to keep up with the competition.

• Humility does not mean denying one’s worth; instead, it means being realistic and emphasizing only your good qualities and abilities. In return, others will know that they can count on these qualities of you.
• Being humble is a wise move because it gives your true nature an opportunity to shine. Humility will also show people that you respect their abilities, not fear them; The wisdom of accepting one’s own limitations and linking to the power of others to augment one’s own is limitless.

Always be there for others. Wise people don’t need to live in caves, grow long beards, and wander in their retreats. Exchange your knowledge with others to guide them. When you become a mentor and a teacher, you can help others learn to think critically, appreciate their emotions, enjoy lifelong learning, and believe in themselves.

• Avoid using knowledge as a barrier against others. Knowledge is meant to be shared, not hidden, and wisdom only grows once you approach the ideas of others no matter how contrary they may be to your own.

Learn to admit your mistakes. The hardest journey is often the one that requires you to look into your own soul and be honest about everything. Try to understand the beliefs, opinions, and prejudices that you harbor. If you’re not willing to get to know yourself well and learn how to appreciate both your own strengths and weaknesses, you’re unlikely to be wise. Knowing yourself will enable you to grow and forgive yourself throughout your life journey.

• Be wary of any self-improvement advice that claims the process requires you to have “secrets”. The only “secret” to self-improvement is that you need to work hard and persevere. Other than that, you can make a few small changes (which have been clearly proven through the success of the self-help field) but you can’t change the fact that you have to do some introspection. and think about the world.

Accept that you cannot know everything. The wisest are often those who realize that they really know very little, even though they have spent decades studying and pondering. The more you think about the people, things, and events going on around you, the more clearly you realize that there are quite a few things you don’t know and that the things that you know are only the tip of a tree. among countless knowledge. Accepting that your understanding is limited is the key to being wise.

• Expertise should not be confused with wisdom. Expertise refers to a high amount of knowledge about a particular field, while wisdom refers to a broader concept of seeing the bigger picture from that body of knowledge, and calmly make decisions and act in the direction of knowledge.

Take responsibility for yourself. Only you know who you are and only you can be responsible for your own choices. If you spend years just doing the right thing by other people’s standards instead of your own, you give up your right to hold yourself accountable. Don’t do a job where other people don’t recognize your talent, but look for a job where others can see your ability. Go where you feel comfortable. Find ways to make a living without sacrificing your kindness, care, and concern. Taking responsibility for yourself, including learning to accept the consequences of your own decisions, will increase your wisdom.