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Wisdom
Kramer (2000) defines wisdom as to how one thinks and not what that person thinks. It is a combination displayed through how a person’s behavior in any social setting is affected by experiential knowledge, action, affect, and cognition. Through wisdom, people can negotiate fundamental changes that occur within their lives. These changes are the driving forces to social classes, and with intelligence comes a better experience or the motivation to achieve one. A person’s level of control over events in lives is attributed to wisdom. The cultural conception that exists, “Older and wiser,” as suggested by Susan Bluck in Experiencing Wisdom Across the Lifespan, does attribute intelligence to aging. Instead, age is considered one among the factors that contribute to one becoming wiser (Bluck and Judith 2004). Through the attainment or the desire for a better life characterized by wisdom, characteristics of understanding can be observed in those who pose it.
Behavioral components, cognitive, social, affective, and social are crucial elements considered in the examination of wisdom through the method known as a wisdom-of-experience procedure (Judith et al. 2005). Researchers converge on the fact that any person can be wise and that this can be determined by the correct use of the knowledge that is availed to such individuals. To verify this, it is assumed that an individual can give at least an account in their life where they firmly believe in having applied elements of the right knowledge in a manner that suggest that they were wise. Some schools of thought argue that what an individual may passive as knowledgeable would be judged by another as not smart (Markowitz et al. 2017). However, the individual should be allowed to state their application of wisdom from an internal perspective that is not opposed by another person.
Regarding Forgas et al. (2018), life satisfaction and life characterized by humility is the desire of most human beings, and wisdom contributes to the achievement of these virtues according to research. These are the goals in human life, and phronesis, defined as wisdom in its practical nature, helps in the regulation, coordination, and finally, the implementation of theses virtues in our lives. Even when anyone can achieve wisdom irrespective of age, youth have a knowledge deficiency when compared to their elderly counterparts. Therefore, since experience brings along the knowledge required as a fundamental ingredient to a person being wise, it can be concluded that there would be a higher distribution of more thoughtful individuals with age.
Works Cited
Forgas, Joseph P., and Roy F. Baumeister. “The Social Psychology of Living Well: Historical, Social and Cultural Perspectives.” The Social Psychology of Living Well. Routledge, 2018. 1-18.
Gl ck, Judith, et al. “The wisdom of experience: Autobiographical narratives across adulthood.” International Journal of Behavioral Development 29.3 (2005): 197-208.
Kramer, Deirdre A. “Wisdom as a classical source of human strength: Conceptualization and empirical inquiry.” Journal of social and clinical psychology 19.1 (2000): 83-101.
Markowitz, Fred E., and Douglas J. Engelman. “The “Own” and the “Wise”: Does Stigma Status Buffer or Exacerbate Social Rejection of College Students with a Mental Illness?.” Deviant behavior 38.7 (2017): 744-755.