Wisdom – Experience = Theory

Wisdom – Experience = Theory

This is so true, for one may have the knowledge, the concepts and the knowhow, but reality is that it is still just a concept until practiced. No matter how grounded you feel with a concept, unless you have experienced it yourself, no amount of reading, talking, listening, watching and writing will make it an experience.

What the above points to is patience of the first order. Today people are in a hurry for everything, no matter what it is they want to accomplish, and achieve. What people need to remember is that everything comes at the right time, right conditions and right place. There are so many factors during this process of coming together that we as humans remain unaware of and try to hurry the process.

Here is an analogy: Imagine you are getting ready to bake a cake. You need the right ingredients, the right mixing, the right container for baking, an oven set to the right temperature for the cake, and the right amount of time for baking as well as cooling. Can you get a delicious cake without the basic ingredients it needs? Can you hurry the process? Of course not! Similarly, one cannot hurry life and living either. You have to gain the skills; you have to give it the time it needs. You have to get the valuable knowledge behind the concept. You need the theoretical knowledge, the patience and the time, and then you need the necessary action in order to gain the practical experience/the experiment.

Another critical ingredient to life is failure. Failure is to life just as fever/high temperature is to health.

Fever points to something going on within the body. The body is fighting an infection and letting the fever do its role is important, rather than immediately trying to reduce the fever with medicine. It needs to be given 24 to 48 hours, that is time to do its job, before hurrying it out of the body.

Similarly, allow failure to guide you into new perspectives, new doors that you may have not thought of before. Make failure your friend, for one learns when they fail.

So have the patience for everything to come together in life with time and action.

Only then do you get the wisdom to lead a meaningful life, the way it is meant to be lived. J