guess I should try to get wiser… ~.^

And yes, I think philosophy has a lot to do with it. Yet it is very much underrated. Though, if we start thinking it as “just a field or subject”, nothing would have changed. It’s really more like a way of life, or a fundamental underlying attitude of living.

Did you know Bruce Lee was a philosophy student from University of Washington? And he’s an avid reader of Alan Watts.

“In fact, if you say “I want to be wise”, people probably edge away from you and think you are nuts. ”

That’s a great distinction between wisdom and intelligence.

I like to call wisdom by its more banal name: common sense.

My parents have it, my grandparents definitely had it, and I am hoping to get more of it. :P

But perhaps, wisdom is also common sense worked in with logic/rationality.

I find the students of philosophy to be some of the most level headed, rational people I know.

Granted, I am probably biased, as BF is a philosophy student, but I feel as though I have grown and learned so much just by a couple of learnings he passes on occasionally, relating to situations we discuss.