Tip: What is wisdom? 

Learning: Change in behavior.

Experience: Feedback. Have to try it. Especially now.

Abstraction: Abstraction is finding what is common between two or more things. If you look at three items, and each of them is the same color, you might notice this pattern, and say “they are all red.” If you do this enough, you’ll start to have a category in your mind called “red.” Red is an abstraction. Some languages only have 3 colors. Women, Fire, & Dangerous Things (same word for that category). “Threeness” is another abstraction, with math being possibly the most abstract language and symbol system we have. Some abstractions, like “zero” are really incredible, and it’s hard to even imagine how we figured them out… nevermind negative numbers. 

Levels Of Learning: Data > Information > Knowledge > Understanding > Wisdom

Wisdom: When you have experience and understanding in multiple domains, and you begin to study understanding itself, to teach understanding, you start seeing higher level patterns, making higher level distinctions.

So wisdom is a combination of experience, feedback, learning, making distinctions, abstraction… and then having “Meta-Understanding.”

WARNING: If you don’t get the experience, and see how things work yourself, what works, what doesn’t, and imprint those reference experiences, you don’t actually learn, and you can’t achieve understanding, and then you can’t achieve wisdom. Must be willing to endure the difficulty, pain, loss, grief, challenges… and keep going. Don’t just use the shortcut I’m going to show you right now. Use the shortcut to show you a pathway, then go WALK THE PATH yourself.

You summarize in 1 word, 2 words, 3 words… before and after. And test yourself.