It summarises what I feel made him my greatest, wisest mentor. Which I just about managed to deliver at his funeral. These are the things that wisdom, and wise leadership, look out for. It is the bubbling before the eruption, often ignored. Not necessarily serving as an excuse, but perhaps proffering some semblance of a reason. There is always a backstory, a why behind the what. Dismissal of context - which to my mind is the most important. Arguments erupting without accurate information. I’d proffer that there are many clever people (or politicians) with a huge amounts of research and data at their fingertips, but unless this ‘knowledge’ is filtered through a discerning prism of context and thorough comprehension alongside balanced, informed opinion, it’s just ‘fodder’ that can be bent any which way to support any required argument. Thus it has been said that while knowledge is knowing what to say. However wisdom, understood as the state of being wise, means “having the power of discernment and judging properly as to what is true or right.” Wisdom is typically gained from experience and acquired over time. It comes from the verb to know, which in turn means “to perceive or understand as fact or truth.” Never again.Ī trite example, perhaps, but it demonstrates the subtle difference between wisdom and knowledge the latter being defined as “an acquaintance with facts, truths or principles, as from study or investigation.” In other words information garnered through teaching, books and research. I destroyed a dishwasher stubbornly ignoring this. The sort that you don’t hear straight away, but later, sometimes years later, you realise the truth in the words.Įxample: always put salt in the dishwasher, even if you use the tabs that say it’s included. The one I could talk to and be heard as myself. He was my champion, the parent who truly saw, and understood, me. And anyone who knows me well, will know how much I loved and respected my Dad. It’s true what they say about grief - it never leaves you, you just adapt to it. Almost exactly six years ago my father died.
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