8 wisdom questions

  1. 1

    What is a truth you know but do not live by?

  2. 2

    Which of these is wisdom, to you?

    • Knowing when to speak
    • Knowing when to stop
    • Knowing what you do not know
    • Knowing who to ask
    • Knowing what matters
  3. 3

    What is the wisest thing anyone has said to you in the last year?

  4. 4

    Who is the wisest person you know, and what makes them so?

  5. 5

    What did you have to get wrong to understand?

  6. 6

    What do you know for certain now that you would have argued against at twenty?

  7. 7

    What piece of common wisdom do you think is wrong?

  8. 8

    What would you want carved somewhere, in ten words or fewer?

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