Intelligence - wise about wisdom

In a very stable world in which nothing ever goes wrong, it might be better to be stupid and happy than wise and anxious. Otherwise, you need wisdom to cope with difficulties.

Wisdom is about awareness. If you know the road, life is easier. If you can see the road, life is easier. If you can discover new roads, life is richer. If you know you have a choice of roads, life is richer. The purpose of thinking is to arrange the inner and outer world so as to serve and improve our values. Awareness is much more than information. Awareness is information as it relates to you.

Perception is not what the eye sees but what the brain sees. When you read the world "ice-cream" you do not just see an arrangement of letters. In your "mind's eye" you get an impression of the appearance, taste, texture and temperature of an ice-cream. Wisdom takes place in perception. If our perceptions are wrong then no amount of logical excellence will give the right answer. Our traditional intellectual effort has been directed at logic and so little at perception. Logic will not change emotion and feelings. Perception will.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are mistakes in perception. Seeing only part of the situation. Jumping to conclusions. Misinterpretation caused by feelings. Everyone has his own logic perception. "Everyone is always right - no one is ever right." Wisdom acknowledges the value and the reality of individual logic bubbles.