Sunday, April 13, 2008
i think wisdom is a very important. it is much more important than intelligence. in our society, we have no lack of intelligence and competence, there are lots of people year in year out that can get ery good grades for maths and sciences, whether at the secondary school and tetiary level, and lots of successful business people make big bucks every year with the good market strategy.But why ,despite all the success people are able to achieve with their intellectual rescource, many people are still not Happy and the sense of emptiness ultimately set in even when all that could HAve been accomplished are done? i believe this is due to a simple fact that the human soul is designed to desire for good relationship with those around us as well as to relate with our own kind well and engage in meaningful reltionship. this is where wisdom comes in. without wisdom , we will have 2 problems with people. 1)constant conflict this is bound to happen when we do not know how to think from other people perspective and put ourselves in other people shoes. this happens when we are shortsighted and only see our short-term goals and fail to realise that good relationship with others ultimately reap long term benefit. It also happens due to our foolish behaviours when we behave badly towards other people in naiveness and insensitvity. 2) lack of in depth relationship i believe the root of all good relationship is really wisdom. i believe relationship is ultimately about us putting ourselves in putting shoe, seeing from other people perspective and expressing ourselves well in the way we relate with people. all these need wisdom. |
