#1 The Awareness Drop – Getting Wisdom
The overlooked and underappreciated insights hidden in plain sight.
Greetings!
Welcome to the very first edition of The Awareness Drop!
Of course, I am starting this newsletter with wisdom.
For as long as I can remember, particularly beginning in my university days, I would always wake up in the morning and say a handful of affirmations, with getting wisdom sitting at the first few lines.
So, what better way to start this newsletter than to share resources I visit regularly that renew my understanding of wisdom?
Here are three interesting links about wisdom. Don’t forget to share if you find them interesting.
🎥 1. Maria Popova on Wisdom
I find myself revisiting this video by Maria Popova on Wisdom in the Age of Information repeatedly. In the age of LLMs, where information is now a prompt away, Maria’s message holds even truer.
📚 2. Can We Measure Wisdom?
In this interesting research paper that took me days to distil, it appears that wisdom can be measured.
This research paper explores the measurement of wisdom as a psychological construct, integrating various aspects such as experience, empathy, emotional regulation, and self-reflection, with the goal of operationalising and quantifying wisdom.
(P.S. It is a long and dense paper. If you’d like the podcast I made with NotebookLM, just reply to this email and I’ll send it your way; it’s a great conversation.)
🎧 3. The Wisdom of Your Body.
I LOVE interesting conversations!
Our bodies hold the stories of what we have been through, and to be aware of this story and let it inform how we live our lives means that we have to be good stewards of our bodies. This is exactly why I love this talk about the wisdom of our bodies by Dr Hillary McBride.
📝 Quote I Can’t Stop Thinking About
“Anger is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.”
— Consolations, David Whyte
Till next week.
Be and remain aware 💛✨