Practical Wisdom

A reasoned and urgent call to embrace and protect the essential human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. In their provocative new book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives. Encouraging individuals to focus on their own personal intelligence and integrity rather than simply navigating the rules and incentives established by others, Practical Wisdomoutlines how to identify and cultivate our own innate wisdom in our daily lives.

What Wisdom Is and Why We Need It
Introduction: The Need for Wisdom	p. 3
What Wisdom Is: The Janitor and the Judge	p. 13
Balancing Acts: Why Wisdom Is Practical	p. 27
The Machinery of Wisdom
Born to Be Wise	p. 51
Thinking with Feeling: The Value of Empathy	p. 69
Learning from Experience: The Machinery of Wisdom	p. 81
The War on Wisdom
Ruling Out Wisdom: When Judges Stop Judging and Doctors Stop Prescribing	p. 113
Eroding the Empathy to Be Wise	p. 129
Right by Rote: Overstandardization and the Rise of the Canny Outlaw	p. 155
The War on Will	p. 177
Demoralizing Institutions	p. 197
Sources of Hope
System Changers	p. 233
Wisdom and Happiness	p. 274
Acknowledgments	p. 289
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 317
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