No man is the wiser for his learning.

— John Selden

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Accumulating knowledge and becoming wise are separate processes, and one does not produce the other. Wisdom is judgment under uncertainty, a sense of what matters and when to act, and none of it is delivered by reading more. Plenty of very informed people decide badly, and the information does not save them. Learning gives you material, and what you do with it is a different faculty altogether.

Take a decision you have been researching and ask whether more input would actually change it. Where it would not, stop reading and choose, since delay is not wisdom either.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you know a great deal about but handle badly?

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