Experience Versus Wisdom
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This past Sunday on the Stephanopoulos Report Senator Tom Daschle and Governor Mitt Romney argued a very interesting debate:
Experience Versus Wisdom
Daschle exclaimed how political history at the highest levels here in the U.S. has proven experience does not always provide the answers to the country’s wows. This country has been led by plenty of old experienced presidents,senators, and representatives who’ve been “in the game” only to make decisions that go against the very nature of its citizens. Mitt Romney in a condescending fashion rebuttled with the following:
I believe wisdom is born from experience…
Sounds goods,but it is the absolute truth? Obviously,this belief comes from his own personal history of climbing the corporate ladder of success and perhaps from his religious beliefs as well. However,I tend to agree more with Daschle. For example current President Bush has been around the political scene all his life,made multi-million dollar decisions as a businessman,and served as governor over the largest U.S. state all before his first term as president yet when interviewed by Bob Costas he had the ordasity to say “the U.S. doesn’t have any problems”…definitely NOT an observation based on WISDOM!
As political comedian John Daly said,”…perhaps that’s the problem!”
Yes,experience can make you wiser in the sense that you keep going through the same thing in life until you learn from them;ie,repeat the same mistakes over and over again you finally identify the mistake behavior and alter it in the moment. But for the most part you must already possess a certain level of wisdom in order to truly experience! You must wise enough to properly interpret the experience you are going through in order to learn from it lest you end up being nothing but an old fool.
So just what is WISDOM,how do we get it,and why isn’t it so readily present among the the supposed more experienced ones?
So stay tuned for the answers to this and more in upcoming sessions on Experience Versus Wisdom.
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