These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups.
ALAN BRISKINWe know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.
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Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term.
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They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.
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Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy.
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Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other, that we can indeed care for each other and the physical planet we share.
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Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life.
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Whether for efficiency or profitability – can lead to disasters in the long term in financial, ecological, political, social, and spiritual spheres.
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We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made.
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We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.
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Wisdom is not developable, as if it’s a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it’s just not the case.
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Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably
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Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups.
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The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols.
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How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.
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Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality.
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Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
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