kurtiss.org | giving is receiving

…only fools optimize for wisdom. This is one of my favorite PG essays in a long while. Paul says this about those who optimize for smartness over wisdom,

Instead of obliterating your idiosyncrasies in an effort to make yourself a neutral vessel for the truth, you select one and try to grow it from a seedling into a tree.

So, it’s likely that someone who wants to be intelligent might be forced to optimize for wisdom when confronted with a relatively seedlingless landscape.