No One Is Wise By Birth. Wisdom Results from One’s Own Efforts

No One Is Wise By Birth. Wisdom Results from One’s Own Efforts

As we all know no one is born as a rock star, politician, athlete, artist or any professional. We all come to this planet as clean slates. Everything is new to us. We see everything around us and feel surprised and feared to see this new world. As we grow we come to know our family, friends, education and other things about this world. That clean slate gets filled with the education and values our parents and teachers give us. We decide what we want in life and go after it. We make lots of mistakes in life some of us learn from it and some don’t. In the end with all of life experiences, wisdom, sufferings and achievements we die.

No one is wise by birth we all are new to this word ‘Wisdom’.  Merriam Webster dictionary defines wisdom as ‘knowledge that is gained by having many experiences in life’. In my opinion it is one of the perfect definitions of wisdom. It doesn’t depend on our age. Some people say that older people are wiser. That is absolutely true but not to full extent. As above written definition says it depends on the experiences of life so it is perfectly clear that more experience a person has more he/she will be wiser. Now if a younger person has more experience than an older person than former one is wiser.

Wisdom depends on our efforts in life. What we do in life adds to our experiences and wisdom. Suppose a person is mountain climber. He wants to climb as many mountains he wants in his life. But too successfully climb a mountain he has to do more climbing efforts. Undoubtedly he will fail in many of his pursuits but those failures will only add to his experience and wisdom which will later become his base for success. In sales profession there is law that states “every person you pitch your product will not become your customer”. If you give ten presentations you will get 1-3 sales from that and with only experience you will be able to make more sales out that.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from other’s successes.” -John C. Maxwell. So make more efforts, learn from your mistakes,  become wisest.

Human 'nature' and the Nature

It is possible that some people will find the nature talk boring and some will find it very interesting and educational. As we all know that we are moving rapidly  towards new technology world where everyday there is a new invention, new idea, new venture etc. We all are very proud of it. Technology has brought us to this level that a man who took month to reach one country to another can reach there within few hours. The moon which was just shining object in sky has been landed over by many great astronauts. And other planets are not much far away. We have created many types of technologies which can provide us millions of benefits. It all seems that any thing is possible in future. Imagine if man discovered 'how to become invisible'. Well! jokes apart. Although we have achieved so much in every field today but we have neglected a very very important part of our life i.e. our closest friend Environment.
We see in the movies the nature depicted in earlier times with lush green mountains , greenery everywhere, clean water resources.  People used to worship Mother Nature.  But gradually all these things are altered. Following are some facts which I want to share with everyone ( Source- Internet);

1.The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 34% since the 17th century and is continuing to rise.
2. Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people

3. Climate change is a real and imminent threat.

4. Oil spills and industrial waste flowing ing water bodies is killling hundreds of species.

5. Children contribute to only 10% of the world’s pollution but are prone to 40% of global disease.

6. Children contribute to only 10% of the world’s pollution but are prone to 40% of global disease.

7. Rapid deforestation is killing many forest species and is big cause of climate change.

All these problems are by products of our development which we ignore to observe. But no longer we should ignore these warning signs of degrading nature other wise it will be too late to regret.

It is very natural for us humans to achieve more but this should not be done at cost of internet. What will be the fun of living if we have lots of money but no clean water to drink, no trees to get clean environment and with frequently occurring natural disasters? All of this can be averted by following simple steps by each one of us. Following are some tips I want to share to conserve our environment:

1. Spread awareness: As we live in technology age we can spread awareness through these technologies. Social networking is great way to go.

2.Reduce food wastage: Millions of people sleep hungry every night. we can do a little favour to them.

3. Go green: use electronic services which can be substitute for using paper. Such as e-bills, e-newspaper etc. We can also promote environment friendly technology.

4. Use public transport: Go challenge your status quo, it will be fun.

5. Afforestation; Grow more trees than you cut. It will keep a balance,

6. Solar technology: It is little expensive but in long run it will pay us great benefits.

7. Proper Waste Disposal

8. Save water: Turning off the water between wetting your toothbrush and rinsing your mouth is one of the simplest and most effective ways to save water while brushing your teeth. The University of Illinois calculates that shutting off the tap instead of letting it run continuously will save your family up to 10 gallons of water daily. Sounds interesting. 

9. INNOVATE: Discover more ideas with conserving our environment.

10. Own the Nature: When we have sense of ownership toward something we really take care of it. 

Keeping it short there are many more ways through which we can save our environment.  We have to star it as fast as we can.