Be The Wisest

     Chip Conley uses the phrase "Modern Elder" to describe who are experienced and not the least interested in retiring. He has a blog called Wisdom Well which is worth a look:

https://wisdomwell.modernelderacademy.com/wisdom-is-not-knowing


     I have adopted this title for myself because I feel it fits me. Here is an example to consider from Psychologist R.D. Laing. "The lesson is clear. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room. Be the wisest."

There is something I don't know

that I am supposed to know.

I don't know what it is I don't know

and yet am supposed to know,

and I feel I look stupid

if I seem both not to know it

and not know what it is I don't know.

Therefore, I pretend I know it.

This is nerve-racking

since I don't know what I must pretend to know.

Therefore I pretend to know everything.

I feel you know what I'm supposed to know

but you can't tell me what it is

because you don't know

that I don't know what it is.

You may know what I don't know,

but not that I don't know it,

and I can't tell you.

So you will

have to

tell me

Everything.