Knowledge vs. wisdom
The late Miles Kington said: Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.
Let me put it another way. Winning Mastermind is easy: all you need is a good memory for facts. Winning in life is rather harder.
The route from knowledge to wisdom passes through three stages:
- Experience - applying knowledge and gather more knowledge in the process
- Reflection - evaluating the results of experience and gaining insights
- Learning - from those insights, developing and refining approaches to adopt in future
Ray Blake
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