What It Is
Sunday, February 15, 2026
WHAT IT IS
As a parent, the virtue of wisdom serves greatly. The same for leaders of any kind in any industry. What is it - wisdom? To learn a lesson and carry that knowledge earned, in life, for all the trials yet to come. Wisdom ultimately feels like intuition. Telling your child to stop throwing that ball in the house and then something breaks. It means not running those errands when your kids are hungry or tired. These are normal instances of wisdom.
Then comes the wisdom of making a life changing decision before you’re forced to do so. As I wrote about on February 11 on my older and other blog, see link below:
Like when my mother decided to move us - my older brother and me out of the city and into a suburb. Growing up in Hartford, CT - in the thick of gang violence, the crack epidemic, death and our family with strong ties to gangs - she demonstrated what wisdom is. The culmination of her life experiences, raising her younger siblings and her two boys - she understood deeply what was at stake. She made a courageous and ethical choice. She felt that intuition and grave responsibility.
Wisdom isn’t hoarding what you learn. Wisdom is acting on all you learn in all you go through. Wisdom has costs. It takes practice and patience. It takes emotion, reflection and its often very hard. These days wisdom is doing almost the exact opposite of what everyone else is doing. Wisdom these days is unpopular and not as instantly gratifying or rewarding as doing the wrong, selfish thing. Wisdom takes time. Wisdom doesn’t naturally become or get easier. It does become however a natural evolution if we all use it the way it is supposed to be: learn it, apply it, repeat it. For life.
Kids simultaneously have an innate ability to teach and test that wisdom.