Good day people! We have arrived at our 3 part of this mini-series on having the right mindset to approach the 22nd century and beyond. If you have read my previous posts on Health and Wealth, you will probably know or guess that the next topic will be about Wisdom which involves understanding and the correct use of knowledge to further benefit oneself and society. It also involves something of common sense and the ability to tell true from false as well as the courage to act in accordance with the right way. It also can be said it is a combination of one’s principles, reasoning, knowledge and experience to be able to make wise choices or take the right paths in life for oneself and for others as well. Wisdom would also cover living life in moderation and allowing the flow of life to help in one’s endeavors rather than against.
There is a saying that goes if a man was given an axe to cut down a tree, the foolish would start immediately and take 6 hours to complete the task while the wise would spend 3 hours sharpening the axe and 1 hour to cut the tree down. That would be the personification of becoming a wise person. This too combines with spiritual factors and a little bit of luck. Before I go into the action steps that we can take as a measure to increase our wisdom, let me leave you with a prayer that we could all use in our daily life (taken from the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr):
“God, grant me the serenity;
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And Wisdom to know the difference”
Where or how to find Wisdom?
- Fail, and fail again. Better to have tried and failed than not tried at all. A wise person has probably gone through more failures and learnt from each experience than those who are even afraid to try or fail.
- Be humble in your successes and proud of your failures
- Realize of the natural order of things. There is no such thing as a permanent situation. Things come and go; live and die.
- Read a lot of books and don’t stop learning. Leverage of the authors and writers who have already gone through their path and discovered the secrets of their field
- Meet more people and tap into their experiences. As one person living their life, you are only limited to one perspective; get out there and socialize and see the world in a different light!
- Live life simply and enjoy the small pleasures that surround us. It takes an awareness just to slow down to appreciate life that is surrounding us and brought us here in the first place
- Appreciate what or who you have with you. Family, friends, relatives and even the stranger on the bus. Sometimes we should not take things for granted especially with our loved ones
- Look at the big picture. It is easy to fall into the trap of looking out of our individual perspectives but seeing how your perspective fits with the rest of the world allows you to gain insights where those who do not
- Reflect and review yourself often. How often we stop to think about how our actions align with our overall purpose in life can represent an indicator of wisdom. Those who rush headlong without taking time to correct the course are heading into disaster or a road that goes on aimlessly.
- Be polite, kind, sincere; mind your manners and have a sense of empathy. If you let it, everything and everybody is out to get you. A wise person knows that he gets more done when he applies proper manners when reaching his objective. Have you ever seen a wise person as a rude, obnoxious, arrogant or self-centered?
I hope you have found the information as inspiring as much as I had when compiling it. As a parting message to those reading these lines, “may you find and be blessed with wisdom in your life.”
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