You Have Wisdom to Share (and it is hiding in your stories)

All you need to do is tune in, open your mouth and speak

All eight billion people on planet Earth are composed of the same six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous. And all eight billion people, no matter where they were born or what language they speak, are composed of 75% water, 23 pairs of chromosomes, and approximately 37.2 trillion cells.

That’s the measurable stuff of which we are made. But there is also some unmeasurable stuff — that which is not immediately visible, even under a microscope. And this unmeasurable stuff is a clue to why our species has been named “homo sapiens” — the “wise ones.”

Hmmm… wise ones… really? Given the sorry state of the world these days, the “wise ones” seems like a misnomer, but in reality, it is our true nature.

Human beings are more than just carriers of viruses, projections, and DNA. We are also carriers of wisdom — the ability to perform an action with the highest degree of adequacy under any given circumstance. “Truth in action,” you might say. What Solomon was famous for. And Socrates. And a whole lot of other sages since the beginning of time.

But not only known sages. Nope. Unknown sages, too. And unknown regular people, too…