Wiser
by Dilip Jeste with Scott LaFee
A geriatric psychiatrist's science of wisdom: its components (compassion, emotional regulation, self-reflection, acceptance of uncertainty, decisiveness, social advising), its neurobiology, how it grows with age and how to cultivate it faster. It is measured and practical, with a validated scale.
Read it if…
you want to understand wisdom as a trainable set of skills, not a mystique.
Skip it if…
you want philosophy; this is neuroscience and psychology.
Three things you will actually use
- Wisdom is measurable and improvable.
- Compassion is its core component.
- Age helps, but practice helps more.
Do this first
Take the wisdom scale and pick the lowest component to practice.
Our verdict
Measured and practical.
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