Wisdom
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This is from old Chinese
wisdom.
We seem to have lost wisdom, the
wisdom
of the indigenous people.
The pearls of
wisdom
leaping from my lips like lemmings is no good for you?" (Laughter) Then my pop got on there.
And they had the
wisdom
to say "no."
The conventional
wisdom
is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts.
CA: And do I hear this right, that it seemed like what you were saying, because you are working with this army of Udacity students, that in a way, you're applying a different form of machine learning than might take place in a company, which is you're combining machine learning with a form of crowd
wisdom.
We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology.
This is the paradox of the
wisdom
of crowds, or the paradox of collective intelligence, that what it requires is actually a form of independent thinking.
The boy was the reincarnation of Wen Qu Xing, the
wisdom
god, sent to the family to reward Xu Xian’s devotion.
It was this power that had protected Bai Su Zhen at the temple, and as he grew, so did his
wisdom.
The Greeks used to say, "You suffer your way to wisdom."
She had perfect salt-and-pepper cornrows platted down the sides of her head, and pride and
wisdom
just emanated from her dark skin.
So as I prepared for my first council meeting, I went back to some
wisdom
my grandmother taught me.
So taking this wisdom, I rolled up my sleeves and began to work.
But over time, it shared the gifts of Western
wisdom
with the rest of the world.
Let me add here that I have personally benefited from the sharing of Western
wisdom.
Now since I've personally traveled this journey from third world poverty to a comfortable middle-class existence, I can speak with great conviction about the impact of Western
wisdom
and the sharing of Western
wisdom
with the world.
Now having transformed the world through the sharing of Western
wisdom
with the rest of the world, the logical and rational response of the West should have been to say, "Hey, we have to adjust and adapt to this new world."
They check in with their neighbors, sharing food, supplies, and
wisdom
gained over their long lives.
Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon who spoke
wisdom
to him from afar.
Born in 129 CE, Galen left home as a teen to scour the Mediterranean for medical
wisdom.
"Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill."
The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.
And without intending it, by appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaging in a war on
wisdom.
And any moral work depends upon practical
wisdom.
This kind of
wisdom
is within the grasp of each and every one of us if only we start paying attention.
Paying attention to what we do, to how we do it, and, perhaps most importantly, to the structure of the organizations within which we work, so as to make sure that it enables us and other people to develop
wisdom
rather than having it suppressed.
This why the
wisdom
of the crowds can be destroyed by peer pressure, publicity, social media, or sometimes even simple conversations that influence how people think.
Because we have to find a way to tap into the collective
wisdom
and experience of all users.
The good Lord in his infinite
wisdom
didn't create us all equal as far as intelligence is concerned, any more than we're equal for size, appearance.
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