David Grinspoon Quote

Here, I find it useful to point out the distinction between cleverness and wisdom. Cleverness is the ability to solve problems through invention and innovation. We’ve got that in spades. Wisdom is the ability to apply experience, awareness of context, and prior knowledge of consequences, and fold all that into action. There, we seem to be more challenged. Even to the extent (which is rapidly growing) that we are aware of our global influence, our capability to apply this knowledge and change course, even in the interest of self-preservation, is not clear. We’re finding that, for now, our great cleverness has outstripped our wisdom. We

David Grinspoon

Here, I find it useful to point out the distinction between cleverness and wisdom. Cleverness is the ability to solve problems through invention and innovation. We’ve got that in spades. Wisdom is the ability to apply experience, awareness of context, and prior knowledge of consequences, and fold all that into action. There, we seem to be more challenged. Even to the extent (which is rapidly growing) that we are aware of our global influence, our capability to apply this knowledge and change course, even in the interest of self-preservation, is not clear. We’re finding that, for now, our great cleverness has outstripped our wisdom. We

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