What would you do with a year if your goal was to become wise?
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If you had the resources to spend a year doing whatever you’d like, and you chose the goal of becoming wise, what would you do with the year?
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Build a school in a remote area and help teach.
I would spend my time reading, painting and writing.
Read something form the book of Proverbs daily, and plan to apply that wisdom to my daily life.
Whew!! What would I do with a year off??? I’d sit and write, is what I’d do, and finish the two books already going about my journey to here and not worry about making a living. I’m already entirely too old and too wise. I need a mind dump before I can add anything else!
Wow! ditto Janet. If I did not have to be concerned about finding a new source of finances I would do the same thing
Let’s make a pact!! Or a sign: Too Old; Too Wise; Need Money.
A shepherd looks like you, driving to the cattle to the stupidity.
I think you gain the most wisdom from experience, so I would spend each month in a different country, living in different conditions and in different cultures, and try to spend the least amount online as possible. Another option would be to live a la Morgan Spurlock in 28 days, and spend each month in America, but living different lifestyles, to really gain an understanding of how other see the world.
Travel. I’d visit every single country in the world.
Travel. I’d visit every single country in the world.
If ever I won the lottery I’d spend a whole year seeing the world. Life is too short and there is too much to do.
Make many many many mistakes.
I’d make memories, anywhere. Doesn’t have to be anywhere exotic. I would spend time talking to as many people as possible and in discovering their wisdom find mine….
Finish my bachelors degree.
Whatever i must go on
Travel!
I would do all of the things that I enjoy, like knitting and reading, while traveling and taking lots of photos. I would travel to different places to document the lives of the people there and help them as I am able to. Experience brings wisdom and I’m sure that this year off creating new experiences would definitely teach me a lot!
Volunteer is under developmed countries and blog about it, to spread the wealth
Read, travel and socialize with people, outside my community.
Agree! Travel, Read & Learn. http://sharlenesmith.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/what-would-you-do-with-a-year-if-your-goal-was-to-become-wise/
Travel and i want to help the others ……
We are only wise now and again, the time for being wise usually comes when you are old by then all the life lessons you have learnt are thrown back at you by the young. Catch 22.
If it only took a year to become wise.
I suppose the first step, in order to make use of time, would be to seek out those who I considered wise and spend some time with them in order to generate a path that could lead to personal wisdom.
To really slow down…
eat apples…smart peeps eat apples
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Funny … I think, that a Year is not sufficient to become wise … well, what would I do, if … ? Very simple. Live in the present, now and here. Doing all the things I have to do today today, tomorrow is far away and yesterday has gone …
Wise, for me would be seriously knowing, for sure, when Art is Good.
I would, unlimited funds available obviously, spend the year choosing amazing art teachers. Then I would find 50 very young artists – aged from 5 to about 10 – and give them all 10 giant canvasses, and with loads of paints, other media, some guidance, knowledge and instruction, get them to produce one ‘amazing piece’ out of their 10 tries. I would then get all these 50 amazing pieces brilliantly lit and hung and similarly priced alongside current overpriced ‘so called amazing art’ and see if anyone could tell the difference.
That would be my contribution to Art Intelligence. And it would be such fun!
Love this idea Jenny.
I’d commit myself to studying the Bible, learning Biblical Hebrew and Greek and really going for it.
business venture
WOULD LIKE TO SPEND THE WHOLE YEAR FINDING OUT WHAT I ACTUALLY WANT OUT OF THIS LIFE – ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND CONSUMING PURSUIT FOR A MAN. DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE BUT NEVER GIVE UP THE PASSION.
Travel, speak to different people . . . I don’t think wisdom comes from books as much as it does from life and experience.
A year-long road trip, the only familiar things the white and yellow lines on the road under my tires . . . that sounds alluring.
I think wisdom comes only from a thorough knowledge of God in your life and the lives of others and that is through reading the Word, life’s experiences, seeking wisdom on a daily basis and knowing how to apply it. Wisdom and understanding are two different things. Wisdom is an inner knowledge…a knowing that you know. And then, the more you know the more you realize how little you really know.
Wisdom, let’s check out the thing called love first. Without that, I don’t think I need to talk about wisdom. That would be for me my coming year’s goal. What a trip it would be. I wonder what will turn up ?
I would follow the path to wisdom and try my best to never stray.
Travel around the world and taste all culture foods.
Meditate: 60%,
Read, Learn: 40%
I think I would load up on fine wine and nod at people a lot…in that “knowing” way…then they would think that I was wise…and that is all that matters.
(I would throw in the occasional “Confusious say…” comment now and then just to solidify my intelligence.)
Travel around the world and be an ambassador of goodwill, peace, love and unity among mankind… Life is beautiful…
I would read everything that my hands can hold on to, surf the net, travel to places I’ve never been, talk to a lot of people, and listen to good music.
Stop, look and listen.
http://thehiltonburnellfiles.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/what-would-you-do-with-a-year-if-your-goal-was-to-become-wise/
Si toda una vida no siempre alcanza para aprender y hacer, un año resulta corto y bien se utilizaría sólo para conocer más.
Janet Sunderland – Sounds like a good idea
(The system doesn’t allow replying a second time on same spot!!)
I responded to this question here: http://alonelyseptember.org/a-year-to-become-wise/ ^^;