Daily Reflection
Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. Wisdom applied to external problems is judgment. They’re highly linked; knowing the long-term consequences of your actions and then making the right decision to capitalize on that. 1
—Naval Ravikant
All this week, we’ll be considering what makes a person wise, and how to cultivate the skill and judgement necessary to achieve real wisdom.
We’re starting today with an extremely practical perspective on the matter from modern philosopher Naval Ravikant.
Understanding the implications of your decisions accurately (most of the time) contributes not only to personal wellbeing, but also serves as a sort of social credit.
According to Naval, as you prove your judgement to others, more people will trust you to make progressively larger and more important decisions. This produces leverage and thus, more experience and opportunities to refine the set of skills necessary to develop deep wisdom.
As you can tell, this ecosystem of ideas—judgement, wisdom, and skill—are deeply intertwined.
All this week we’ll be considering these topics from the perspective in everything from Jewish Wisdom Literature to Stoicism.
I’ll see you back here tomorrow, I’m very excited to go deeper.
And of course, I’m even more excited to share the first episode of our podcast with you this Friday! Make sure to share TPP this week with your friends you think would love what we’re talking about!
Matt
https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant/judgment