by REDRUM

Created on: July 02, 2007   Last Updated: July 01, 2010

The Oxford says, wisdom is the combination of knowledge and experience along with the ability to apply them. Application is key in the definition of wisdom. Without the ability to apply what you have learned from life's experience you'll be destine to fail or repeat past failure. That is what history will tell you in school and if you do not apply your past to the present then you will experience the misery or happiness you might have had in the past. The street goes both ways in the application of wisdom or experience, you decide.

If you go to school and learn the knowledge, say, within the mechanics of writing for example. You can place all the right adverbs and nouns in their respective order of the sentence and might even get straight A's. But if you do not have the experience of how to handle a certain situation then you might not be able to apply them so that another person can gain knowledge from your writing work. Here lies the challenge of being wise: How do I apply what I have learned to make better experiences in the future?

Won't be apple to tell you how to answer that last question until I have used what I have learned in everyday life and that takes time. They say that patience is a virtue. I have experienced this to be true because every time that I have rushed into some undertakings that I failed because my knowledge was incomplete and did not have the experience necessary to make wise decisions in the place of my life that I would have liked to of done better. My wisdom from the time that I have learned is an incomplete idea is a half fought battle.

How anyone reading this will apply this to their life is out of my experience because I have not taken the time to live the reader's life. However they can accept it for what they can gain from it which might be nothing. I won't promote something that someone else is not willing to apply. This identification of wisdom is very subjective based on my experiences. That is how it works. My experience in saddling a horse is most likely not going to be applied to survival in a prison for example. What is wise to one person may not be wise to another, but if they are both alive then their knowledge and experience is giving them the wisdom to live them whom is wrong in the depiction of their key to living.

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