Attaining stoic wisdom: listen to the older wiser ones
- Saif Al Basri
- 14. März 2016
- 1 Min. Lesezeit
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Attaining the advice of older wiser Persons has promoted well-being and even survival for millennia. Whether politically or socially, mental maturity reframes our understanding of social complexity. Which in turn, redefines our political basic convictions, ethos, social relations, priorities, sense of time and appreciation.
Over the first million years of human existence, it is only for about the past two decades that most people have gone to anyone other than local elders for solutions to life's obstacles. Anthropologists re-count that in prehistoric times, the accumulated wisdom of older people was a crucial key to human survival. Though many experiments, designed to mirror realistic decision-making scenarios, have repeatedly shown that older people were far better at making choices that led to long-term gain, getting older alone is not enough.
Investing in your own knowledge and reading will increase your chances to gain tranquility and be more likely to take wise decisions. And even when you can't change the fact that you have less experience than others, you still always have a chance to learn from older wiser ones. Keep in mind, the young stoic has more to learn from the old one than the other way around.
