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[–] 174 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another failure to understand intellect from wisdom

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  • [–] 69 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    I've heard many different explanations of intelligence vs wisdom, and I used to think it made sense.

    Like, intelligence is raw processing power while wisdom is having the advantage of experience.

    Or like a smart man looks for oncoming cars before crossing a one-way street, while a wise man looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

    But the more I know about the world, the less I think experienced people are necessarily wiser. They're only wiser if they have the intelligence, clarity, and willpower to learn from their past.

    So to me, it seems that wisdom is more like the area under the intelligence curve. Which would make them inexorably linked.

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  • [–] 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Time to wheel out an old classic:

    Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit
    Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in fruit salad
    Bonus: Charisma is selling tomato based fruit salad as salsa

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

    Dexterity is dodging rotten tomatoes
    Strength is punching a tomato so hard that it turns into ketchup.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Constitution is winning a tomato eating contest

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    The way that makes the most sense for me is intelligence is related to external learning (books, from others, from detailed study of things, etc) whereas wisdom comes primarily from internal observation (self-reflection, personal experience, situational awareness, etc.)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wisdom is evaluated experience. Some people don't "think", hence never learn from their mistakes.

    Others are so open to learning that they don't even need to make the mistake first to learn to avoid it, as reading about it in a book is sufficient.

    The key in either of these scenarios - negative or positive - is being willing to learn.

    Intelligence is mere processing power, which meh, can help, but is neither necessary nor sufficient.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Wisdom is intelligence applied. Or perhaps, wisdom is the synthesis of intelligence.

    Will Hunting starts out the movie with mad intelligence and little to no wisdom, and the movie is the story of him shifting from one to the other.

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  • [–] 87 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A clever fellow has a telescope. He sees what everyone else sees, but clearer and sooner.

    A smart fellow has a microscope. He can see things no one else sees.

    A wise man has a mirror.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Cloak of Wisdom: β€œShould’ve got the Cloak of Knowledge.”

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Cloak of Knowledge: "Should've got the Cloak of Understanding"

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    End result is him walking into the next test with fifty cloaks on.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Poor planning. Should have tried the cape on in advanced, it would have told him to study when there was still time.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But that would require the wisdom of forethought in the first place.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Typical brothers, gives you his cloak of wisdom instead of his cloak of knowledge. Never again Dave, that broke the centuries of trust we had built.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Before exam - Scumbag Brain: Bro I got you, come on let's go grab a drink!

    During exam - Scumbag Brain: Dude they totally didn't cover any of this shit.

    After Exam - Scumbag Brain: Oh hey buddy, you know all those answers you were looking for, here you go! Wow dude, you fucked up MAJOR.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Is it exceedingly uncommon to just read the material, not study beyond that, and still test well?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not everyone learns the same way. Some people require tedious study to get the information to stick, while others can grasp the concepts and retain information when first presented.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A cloak of knowledge would've been useful. Or if they are practical problems on the test, a cloak of intelligence.

    But considering this guy isn't smart, he probably thought wisdom and intelligence are interchangeable. XD

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Get cloak of trickery instead, for cheating reasons.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    bro should borrow cloak of intelligence instead

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I feel like the cloak would also let you see patterns how like most multiple choice questions involve two similar answers, one very wrong one, and one that would be correct if you do a single thing wrong.

    Or help you do the kind of bullshitting that written response tests generally require. You know, without actual subject knowledge

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    "It's all good. I have a +15 to Knowledge checks."

    rolls a nat 1

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    +10 wisdom, -100 regret 😭 the stats checked out way too late.

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