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.