Wise Choice

Context:
- It can (often) be performed by a Wise Agent.
- It can be supported by Wise Sayings.
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Example(s):
- taking steps to become wiser, such as knowing thyself, knowing humanity, or knowing the world better.
- taking steps to be intellectually humble and intellectually authoritative.
- training with people who are better than you.
- reading from a variety of sources.
- donating to the cause of saving children's lives. (Singer, 2009).
- writing down ones beliefs.
- providing Helpful Appropriate Advice.
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Counter-Example(s):
- an Unwise Choice.
- a Selfish Choice.
- a Random Choice.
See: Moral Choice.

References

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wisdom Retrieved:2022-12-3.
- Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence. Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a67x4/i_am_steve_pinker_a_cognitive_psychologist_at/
- QUESTION: Do you find your understanding of the mind negatively affects your own happiness? I mean does your deterministic outlook sometimes make life seem arbitrary and pointless to you, and elation just some chemical reaction.
- Steven Pinker: Quite the opposite -- I find a naturalistic understanding of human nature to be indispensable to leading a wise and mature life, and it is often exhilarating. Wisdom consists in appreciating the preciousness and finiteness of our own existence, and therefore not squandering it; of being cognizant of what makes people everywhere tick, and therefore enhancing happiness and minimizing suffering; of being alert to limitations and flaws in our own judgments and decisions and passions, and thereby doing our best to circumvent them. The exhilaration comes from understanding that we are a part of natural world; that deep mysteries can be explained; and that the world -- including our own mental lives -- can be intelligible, rather than a source of superstition and ignorance. Yes, mortality sucks, but given that it exists, I'd rather know that than be kept in a childlike state of delusion.

(Carlberg et al., 2004) ⇒ Bo Carlberg, Ola Samuelsson, and Lars Hjalmar Lindholm. (2004). “Atenolol in hypertension: is it a wise choice?" In: The Lancet, 364(9446). doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17355-8

Plato.
- “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
- “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”