True wisdom is an advantage anywhere
In any endeavour
No, being a scholar, an academic, an egghead, a nerd, a know-it-all — is NOT an advantage anywhere
It’s rather a disadvantage
You have some clue about some narrow nonsense made up fragment of reality — and you believe it gives you the right to claim understanding of anything outside of it
True wisdom is an advantage anywhere:
-Clarity, non-delusion, not bullshitting oneself or others, patiently building
-Mastering cognitive biases, logical fallacies
-Risk-aversion when risk can ruin you — boldness when risk is localised and finite
-Perseverance vs stubbornness
-Urgency vs patience
-Open-mindedness, shoshin (beginner’s mind), kaizen (continuous improvement)
-Habits and systems building, scaling
-Actually successful planning, not dreaming
-Actually successful execution = keeping one’s word
-Actually successful prediction game
–Fastidiousness vs perfectionism
-Extreme iterating, maximising the number of iterations, thus maximising adaptation and improvement rate
-Building (knowledge or any creation) from strong foundation, understanding the gravity of mastering the basics
-And resulting holistic understanding of the whole system
–Antifragility — building systems which always get better, stronger — whether it’s good fortune or bad fortune
This is obvious
All of those will help you in life
All of those will help you in ANY endeavour
They may not be the deciding factor in any given particular thing
But they will certainly be extremely beneficial ANYWHERE
We misunderstand wisdom, and how useful it is
You look at some imbecile sportsman, or arrogant billionaire, or crazy music star, or demagogue lying piece of shit politician,
All of them “more accomplished than you”,
“BEST IN THEIR FIELD!”
And yet they are not wise,
And now you think that wisdom is useless — you think wisdom is only useful for life in general, but not for any specific discipline
You’re wrong
Again: wisdom may not be the deciding factor
Something else might be
But wisdom applies to both life — and every endeavour
Whereas that single thing which applies to that specific discipline — may not apply to any other discipline
Being tall is helpful in the NBA — AND is helpful on a boxing ring — but is not so helpful in business, is it?
Being good at math is good when you do math, good when you do physics — but not necessarily all that helpful when you’re forming relationships, is it?
Furthermore the “winners” in given field are typically losers in life
They are clowns, often
They belong in a circus
To entertain and “inspire” the bored masses
The true success is to win at EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE
Whereas artificial success of dominating a single discipline is merely an ego trip, a dog and pony show for the stupid masses to gape at
TRUE WISDOM applies to any discipline
Hell, perhaps it’s why it’s true wisdom. Because it’s so universal
Wisdom is that which make you live life wisely
Which means it applies to life
And it’s various important endeavours
Therefore
You should be learning all the time
Thinking about what you read
Apply it immediately — for only then it’s real
The learn from it and learn more and learn more and repeat
Again: Wisdom is underrated
Underrated for it’s misunderstood
You think of some sharp or bookish person, whose timid and weak and accomplished neither anything in particular nor anything in general
Weakness is NOT wise
Wise man is strong
Strength rejoices in wisdom
Wisdom is acquired through action! Not through abstract words, which are meaningless until they have been applied in real life
There is no wisdom without action, no wisdom without courage, no wisdom without strength
Such man of action, of courage, of power — is WISE
And this wisdom permeates each and every single one of his endeavours