This is great and I’m looking forward to your book.
Some adjacent ideas:
I feel like I’ve been appreciating the nature of wisdom (as you describe it here) increasingly much over the past couple of years. One thing this has led me to is looking at tautologies, where the sentence in some sense makes no claim but directs your attention to something that’s self-evident once you look. For example, “the people you spend time with will end up being the people you’ve spent time with”.
In 2017, I wrote an article about transcending regret, and a few years later I shared it with a friend and said:
at the time I wrote this, I hadn’t gotten the insight as deep into my bones as I now have, & I still have much further to go
but the insight is still legit & the articulation is good & your integration will be yours anyway no matter how well I had it integrated when I wrote it
This feels like sort a dual of the sazen, and also maybe relates to the comment Kaj made about experiences that are hard to point at verbally even once you have experienced them.
This is great and I’m looking forward to your book.
Some adjacent ideas:
I feel like I’ve been appreciating the nature of wisdom (as you describe it here) increasingly much over the past couple of years. One thing this has led me to is looking at tautologies, where the sentence in some sense makes no claim but directs your attention to something that’s self-evident once you look. For example, “the people you spend time with will end up being the people you’ve spent time with”.
In 2017, I wrote an article about transcending regret, and a few years later I shared it with a friend and said:
This feels like sort a dual of the sazen, and also maybe relates to the comment Kaj made about experiences that are hard to point at verbally even once you have experienced them.