The etymology is the most precise thing in the piece. Radical as root-seeking rather than extreme-reaching changes everything about what wisdom requires.
The question the article opens but doesn't answer: what does the stripping? Less pretense, less performance, less certainty, but through what mechanism? Information doesn't remove illusion. More reflection doesn't either. What reaches below the narrative the mind keeps running about itself is a quality of presence that has to be developed, not accumulated.
I love those questions: 'What's most essential now?' And 'How do I become more real?' I'm currently absorbed in James Hollis' 'Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life', so I'm pondering those questions a lot right now. And they're challenging, to say the least!
When I open LinkedIn, I look for your comments first. Thank you Chip.
The etymology is the most precise thing in the piece. Radical as root-seeking rather than extreme-reaching changes everything about what wisdom requires.
The question the article opens but doesn't answer: what does the stripping? Less pretense, less performance, less certainty, but through what mechanism? Information doesn't remove illusion. More reflection doesn't either. What reaches below the narrative the mind keeps running about itself is a quality of presence that has to be developed, not accumulated.
Welcome to Substack @Chip Conley! Glad you are here.
I love those questions: 'What's most essential now?' And 'How do I become more real?' I'm currently absorbed in James Hollis' 'Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life', so I'm pondering those questions a lot right now. And they're challenging, to say the least!