Knowledge and Wisdom

🧨 -What is this?
-A lighted cracker ready to go off.
-Do you know how to burst it?
-Of course!
-Come on! Burst it right now!
-What? But we're in class!

Hmm... so you don't burst crackers in class! You do know how to burst them. That's knowledge. 👩‍🎨

You are conscious about not bursting them in class. That's wisdom 🤴

Going to more common things around us in our lives, there are many things we know how to do. Today knowledge is everywhere waiting for takers.

Long back, we had to look hard for any bit of knowledge we wanted. Else, we had to depend on the eternal knowledge of family and friends. I still remember the four different ways of making roti taught to me as "the best way" or "the most correct way"! Today kids learn that from Chef Sanjeev Kapoor. 🤭

  Strangely, even wisdom is lying in wait for its takers, but there is hardly anyone interested in getting it. That's why any Google search is full of 'How to...' while very few people ask 'Why to...', 'Why not to...', 'When to...', 'When not to...', and several other such questions. 😑

  We know how to talk, read, write, watch videos, buy things and so on. That's knowledge.

   Do we know when not to talk, what not to read, where not to write, what not to watch, which things not to buy and so on? Think about it, because that's wisdom. And it's there, somewhere within everyone of us. We just need to keep it within reach and use it often.

  Now, how to use wisdom? Funny how we need knowledge about wisdom! But then, how would we start doing anything without knowing how to do it?😊

There's the good old URGENT & IMPORTANT matrix: https://youtu.be/tT89OZ7TNwc

Then there's a simple question we should ask ourselves everytime we begin doing something.
IS THIS THE RIGHT THING TO DO? Does it hurt or harm me or anyone else? What do I gain? What do I lose? Is it alright to lose that? Yes? No? What are my reasons for doing this? Is this the right time, place, person?

Thinking about so many things may seem difficult or tedious but ultimately it becomes a habit: and imagine what we can achieve if being wise becomes a habit!🤩