When was the last time you questioned your sources of knowledge?
What informs your current decisions?
Wisdom is not knowledge. Knowledge is not the same as information. And information alone doesn’t make you wise.
Here’s the process of becoming wise: gather enough valuable information — filter the knowledge for your personal circumstances — apply what you learn until it becomes wisdom (common sense) through experience (repeat “common sense” to become a better version of yourself or fix problems you come across).
Mastering the process takes time because it requires thinking forward and backwards, pondering, reflecting, cross-domain knowledge transfer and connecting valuable and similar knowledge.
Acquiring wisdom is like an entrepreneur who has been in business for years — they know what steps to take, things to avoid, how and when to apply knowledge and when to connect ideas.
Over time, they develop the instincts for predicting what can work and ideas to avoid. They become wise and grow in wisdom.
T.S. Eliot once said in a poem, “Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
