Abstract

The book seeks to answer the question - what is wisdom and how should it be used in everyday life? A model of wisdom is presented in which wisdom describes three attributes: knowledge, qualifications (skills) and inspirations leading to consciously controlled processes of correct assessment of the situation and the correct choice of solution options in the context of the art of living. For each attribute, we can specify a set of characteristics describing and categorizing them. The synergy of the attributes of wisdom, and consequently the corresponding characteristics, determines the possibilities of conscious, wise action. Our necessary task at this stage of the wisdom development is to gather the right knowledge about the so-called user cases that describe the circumstance of using wisdom in our lives, and which we call seeds of wisdom. They can be associated with famous and outstanding people, representatives of various professions, or/ and wise solutions encountered in our communities. The book describes many such cases. This type of content can be stored in the so-called cognitive containers (including Big Data and Big Wisdom) that thanks to the available tele-information services will enable their assessment and verification of many statements made in the book. It is a work for generations, yet we urge you to take up this challenge without delay. It deals with researching, developing, teaching, and popularizing wisdom among people and their civilizations, especially the new global one we deal with in the 21st century, which has become a great challenge for us.

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