Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

<b>A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. </b> <br /><br /> It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back? <br /><br /> <i>Practical Wisdom</i> can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual experiences with our empathy and intellect-an aim that Aristotle identified millennia ago. It's learning "the right way to do the right thing in a particular circumstance, with a particular person, at a particular time." But we have forgotten how to do this. In Practical Wisdom, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe illuminate how to get back in touch with our wisdom: how to identify it, cultivate it, and enact it, and how to make ourselves healthier, wealthier, and wiser.