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Jun 13, 2014
"We can experience any kind of pleasure and pain either too much or too little. But to experience all this at the right time, toward the right objects, toward the right people, for the right reason, and in the right manner -- that is the median and the best course, the course that is a mark of virtue." --Aristotle
How To Cultivate Practical Wisdom
"A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule... A wise person knows how to improvise...And finally, perhaps most important, a wise person is made, not born. "These are the words of psychologist Barry Schwartz, who together with political scientist Kenneth Sharpe explores how to find the "right" course of action in their new book, Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. Wisdom seekers one and all will want to hear more.