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...Live: A Search For Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)Henry AlfordTwelve Books; 262 pages...
...study illustrating the difference between the concept of wisdom in eastern and western cultures: "Takashi and Bordia showed four groups of college students - one American, one Australian, one Indian, and one Japanese - all the possible pairings of the seven adjectives 'wise,' 'aged,' 'awakened,' 'discreet,' 'experienced,' 'intuitive,' and 'knowledgeable.' When the students were asked to rate which two adjective were most similar to each other, the western students chose 'wise' and 'knowledgeable' or 'wise' and 'experienced,'' whereas the easterners most associated 'wise' with 'discreet...
...what happened? And he said, "You don't understand that for a year and a half, I was in Latin America, going to small villages and sitting with this kind of man, listening to their oral tradition, to the beauty of their history, to the wisdom of their culture. And they shared it with me. And now here I am, the policeman, here I am the bad guy, here I am the occupier. And I can't talk to this man. You know how much he could tell me under different circumstances?" And I say, that's an example...
...need to keep an open mind and be willing to learn. His investment career spanned five decades, but his lifelong devotion was to spiritual concerns and philanthropy. While Sir John was famous as a financial-industry legend and visionary, we knew him as a man of strong principles and wisdom, but more important, as a loving father to his children and friend to all who worked with him. His greatest lesson was humility, not only by practicing it himself but also by showing us that only through humility can you achieve great understanding...
...York City SAG town-hall meeting devolved into a heated back and forth between union President Alan Rosenberg - who is planning to spend $100,000 of the group's money to lobby for a strike - and many New York-based actors who questioned the wisdom of choosing not to work during a national recession...