Acquiring Wisdom
by Miki Saxon
Continuing from yesterday.
Two of the hardest things you need to do to start acquiring wisdom are
- Investing the time, energy and discomfort in getting to actually know yourself — the real you that may only exist in private at 3 AM and that you rarely if ever talk about.
- Choosing (yes, it’s your choice) to reduce your intake of social media or not, you do need to reduce your reliance on it. At the same time you want to strengthen your objectivity
The absolute requirement of the first is to get to know your opinions, biases, prejudices, etc., sans outside influences. You can’t be objective until you know your subjective viewpoint.
That said, today’s world of distractions, intentionally addictive social media, and extended working hours doesn’t lend itself to self-reflection. That means you need to consciously set aside the time to do it and then follow through — same as any get healthy program.
Developing your objectivity requires you to do some very uncomfortable things, such as reading/listening to material outside your worldview, belief system and comfort zone.
Then researching sources recognized as objective to determine the validity of the information.
You should know that the odds are against your accomplishing this.
Research has shown that no matter how much incontestable proof people rarely change their mind.
But perhaps you can be one of the exceptions.
Image credit: Katherine McGittigan
May 14th, 2019 at 10:45 am
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