Wisdom And Age

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Wisdom and age



What is wisdom? Wisdom is traditionally associated with profound understanding and deep insight. Such understanding and insight is usually integrated with a wide variety of various life experiences. Wisdom is believed to be the relationship that exists between things (Teachings of Buddha). The term thing describes the relationship between objects and human beings. These relationships that exist between things have two common factors, the correlation and examination of prior experiences or relational values of that unique individual. The second is the concreteness that maintains a sense of wholeness among all things, this is related to an individuals perceptual views of the world around them. With that being said, wisdom does not require formal education or even an actual partaking in some life experiences. But it does require the cognitive ability to simplify multiple elements of larger more complex compilations. In an essence wisdom is the profound understanding of simplistic components that requires relational examination between past experiences. Wisdom is extremely diverse and is completely derived from situational experiences based on prior experiences The Wisdom page).
There are a few aspects I would like to cover concerning wisdom and age. These topics are pertaining to the mental processes involved in wisdom through age (Ardelt, 2000). Such topics are the developmental characteristics and brief comparison between intellect and wisdom. Another aspect is the improvement in wisdom influenced decision making despite other the decline of other mental capacities. Another examination between wisdom and age is a performance test that was given to both the youth and elderly (Straudinger, 1999). The two areas of interest remaining are concerned with quality of life and how wisdom is involved.
Age, related to wisdom is ultimately the acquisition of life experiences. As the result age can provide t...