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Practical Wisdom

Barry Schwartz

A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.

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No Stupid Questions

It was discussed as a book which argues that everyone wants to succeed and do the right thing, but balancing the two can be challenging and requires practical wisdom, which it details in six key qualities.

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So I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one o...

— Episode: 36. Which Matters More, a First or Last...

Episode: 36. Which Matters More, a First or Last Impression...

It was discussed as a book which argues that everyone wants to succeed and do the right thing, but balancing the two can be challenging and requires practical wisdom, which it details in six key qualities.

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So I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one of whom I know you know Barry Schwartz who's a psychologist at Swarthmore and Kenneth Sharp who is a political scientist at Swarthmore and it's called Practical Wisdom

and they make this argument that I think would resonate with a lot of people which is that everyone wants to succeed on some level but we also want to do the right thing again at some level and sometimes the balancing the two can be hard and the way to balance they argue is by exercising wisdom practical wisdom there are six key qualities that they offer of how a wise person can or should behave

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