Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality.
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Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term.
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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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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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Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other.
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These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups.
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We seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.
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For an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.
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They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.
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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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Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life.
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We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.
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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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Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
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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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