4 Things All Wise People Know

‘A wise person knows the proper aims of the activity she is engaged in. She wants to do the right things to achieve these aims- wants to meet the needs of the people she is serving.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

‘A wise person knows how to improvise, balancing conflicting aims and interpreting rules and principles in light of the particularities of each context.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

‘A wise person is perceptive, knows how to read a social context, and knows how to move beyond the black- and-white of rules and see the gray in a situation.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

‘A wise person knows how to make emotions an ally of reason, to rely on emotion to signal what a situation calls for, and to inform judgment without distorting it. He can feel, intuit, or ‘just know’ what the right thing to do is, enabling him to act quickly when timing matters. His emotions and intuitions are well educated.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe