Wisdom
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We applied this algorithm to millions of Google Street View images across hundreds of American cities, and we have learned something really interesting: first, it confirmed our common
wisdom
that car prices correlate very well with household incomes.
Most serve a year or two with StoryCorps traveling the country, gathering the
wisdom
of humanity.
I've learned about the poetry and the
wisdom
and the grace that can be found in the words of people all around us when we simply take the time to listen, like this interview between a betting clerk in Brooklyn named Danny Perasa who brought his wife Annie to StoryCorps to talk about his love for her.
Together, we can create an archive of the
wisdom
of humanity, and maybe in doing so, we'll learn to listen a little more and shout a little less.
But in that little story, there's a wisdom, which is, as soon as you think you know something about this extraordinary civilization of 5,000 years of continuing history, there's always something new to learn.
What pearl of
wisdom?
Now, conventional
wisdom
would say that we'll just take these driver assistance systems and we'll kind of push them and incrementally improve them, and over time, they'll turn into self-driving cars.
And there are a million reasons to fall in love with this language: its depth of poetics, its double entendres, its wax and gold, its humor, its proverbs that illuminate the
wisdom
and follies of life.
So this message, that good, close relationships are good for our health and well-being, this is
wisdom
that's as old as the hills.
Many thinkers contend that melancholy is necessary in gaining
wisdom.
In his masterpiece "The Anatomy of Melancholy," Burton wrote, "He that increaseth
wisdom
increaseth sorrow."
But
wisdom
and emotional intelligence seem pretty high on the hierarchy of needs.
Now, she moved from knowledge to
wisdom.
Unknown in the West, this was the collected
wisdom
of an entire continent, the voice of Africa at a time when Africa was thought not to have a voice at all.
Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire so that we can reach Nirvana, an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.
For a long time, conventional
wisdom
said that we should drink eight glasses a day.
Much earlier, in his defense of the poet Archias, Roman consul Cicero appealed to his own practical
wisdom
and expertise as a politician: "Drawn from my study of the liberal sciences and from that careful training to which I admit that at no part of my life I have ever been disinclined."
More black men die from high blood pressure than from anything else, even though decades of medical
wisdom
and science have demonstrated that death from high blood pressure can be prevented with timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
I wasn't weighed down by expertise or conventional
wisdom.
And when will we embrace the
wisdom
of our era to rise above mere tolerance and move to an acceptance for all who are only a label until we know them?
When mother trees are injured or dying, they also send messages of
wisdom
on to the next generation of seedlings.
And third, when we do cut, we need to save the legacies, the mother trees and networks, and the wood, the genes, so they can pass their
wisdom
onto the next generation of trees so they can withstand the future stresses coming down the road.
The more I've seen and learned about our respective generations, the more I realize that we often don't trust each other enough to actually share our respective
wisdom.
We may share a border, but we don't necessarily trust each other enough to share that respective
wisdom.
I believe, looking at the modern workplace, that the trade agreement of our time is opening up these intergenerational pipelines of
wisdom
so that we can all learn from each other.
So how can we get companies to tap into that
wisdom
of the midlife folks, just as they nurture their digital young geniuses as well?
No, what is striking about the modern elder is their relevance, their ability to use timeless
wisdom
and apply it to modern-day problems.
Maybe it's time we actually valued
wisdom
as much as we do disruption.
With that perfect alchemy of algorithm and people wisdom, we were able to create and instantaneous feedback loop that helped our hosts better understand the needs of our guests.
In sum, CEO Brian Chesky brought me in for my industry knowledge, but what I really offered was my well-earned
wisdom.
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