Wisdom Takes Years To Acquire
Does the speed of change wear you down? It does me. At times, it makes me mad and frustrated.
I grew up at a time before the invention of the computer. For us, our brains and our own intellect were our computers. Owning and possessing the wisdom of the ages required great listening skills, excellent memory skills, thinking skills, knowing how to access information in libraries, and living long enough to amass wisdom.
In my opinion, it is the aging of the thoughts within certain individuals that produces the sages and gurus.
Today, the ease at which most people can access information is incredible. By typing a single word or a phrase onto google we are privy to the knowledge of the ages. Does that make us wise?
Some ‘wise guys’ think that because they are privy to the ‘WISDOM’ of the ages that they know it all, but I still believe that true ‘WISDOM’ is a product of age, like fine wine, like hard cement, like scrabble mavens.
People who think that they know it all DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW.
And it is nearly impossible to have a reasonable conversation with them. Along with their thinking that they know it all comes their self-righteousness.
As for me, every time my curiosity get the best of me and I begin a NEW project I always start off by learning how much I DON’T KNOW, yet. I’m not driven to learn more in order to become ‘wise’. Like so many of you, I am driven to create the projects that I dream up from my own imagination. And while you and I do our things, our personal wisdom grows.
I have no use for ‘wise guys’. I have a profound respect for ‘wisdom’.
When playing scrabble, have fun, continue to learn words and strategies, and the wisdom will follow.