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Thaddeus Metz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

I don’t know about you, but I recall always being told, growing up, about the importance of wisdom—as some kind of life-learning objective, as if it were the pinnacle of cognitive development. There’s ...