Is It Worth Being Wise?

Read the article here.

Great essay on the differences between being smart and wise. Quite the twist at the end as well! He had me hooked, that bastard... I actually started feeling like I had possibly made a terrible, terrible mistake somewhere down the line. :)

The path to wisdom is through discipline, and the path to intelligence through carefully selected self-indulgence. Wisdom is universal, and intelligence idiosyncratic. And while wisdom yields calmness, intelligence much of the time leads to discontentment.