Even if the trip is to someplace where actual wisdom might be acquired -- a museum, say -- the student's time will be allocated according to this ancient field-trip formula: Bus travel: 25percentt.
The art of living in the present, a theme dealt with in Sufi literature, is a type of wisdom that must be acquired, since living for the hereafter and heavenly rewards is conventional wisdom more suitable for the masses.
Each individual, he says, must cultivate benevolence (ren), righteousness (yi), propriety (li), and wisdom (zhi), but virtue will not be acquired in equal measure by all.
Therefore practical wisdom, as he conceives it, cannot be acquired solely by learning general rules.
Here, Lopp passes along the nuggets of workplace wisdom he's acquired, including how geeks can communicate with non-geeks, why geeks and managers don't get along, and how to know when it's time to move on.
Wisdom is acquired over several lifetimes," says Segal, which is why he created iWise to make wisdom more accessible.
Wisdom was acquired through immersion in the best that has been thought and said.
However, the message of this queen's saga is essentially Aeschylean: wisdom is acquired by suffering, which far more often than not is the result of our hubris.
Garmel [ 3] describes mentoring as "an insightful process in which the mentor's wisdom is acquired and modified as needed, as well as a process that is supportive and often protective.
To the ancient Greeks, philosophy was "love of wisdom," meaning all systematic knowledge that was acquired through reasoned inquiry.
