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Doesn't wisdom come from experience? So, no matter how old you are, if you have done something then you have experience doing it and you have some insight and w
by w8rbt 8y ago
Doesn't wisdom come from experience? So, no matter how old you are, if you have done something then you have experience doing it and you have some insight and wisdom about it (whatever it is).
So a 20 year old who has driven the Rubicon Trail probably knows a lot more about that than a 50 year old who has never done so.
- ambivalents 8y agoEh, I'd distinguish "wisdom" from "knowledge" in this example. This 20 year old might know a lot more about this trail, and thus be "better" at driving it, in a technical sense. At the same time, a wise person would approach the undriven trail, and apply what they have learned about driving, unfamiliar terrains, risk balancing, etc. to the experience of driving it. Maybe they'd even decide, "Screw this, I'm running late and want to go have some beer instead." In the end, who did it better? Maybe it doesn't matter, but I see wisdom as the ability to apply hard-won experience to novel situations.
- FPGAhacker 8y agoIt's still a good example though. I think maybe the difference here is wisdom is more generically applicable than most knowledge, but it's still knowledge.