Co-Host: Dr. Laura Gabayan - Medical Professor, Social Scientist, Author
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Knowing that you guys tend to LOVE the episodes where we apply science to social dynamics, I’ve found a true expert in the field of the scientific basis for human wisdom. Dr. Laura Gabayan is both a medical professor at UCLA and a social scientist.
As she embarked upon studying the subject of this episode, she recognized that all major religions talk about wisdom and many famous people have written about it, but she was taken aback as to how subjective, if not purely anecdotal, all the information out there was. She craved more objectivity so she set out to evaluate wisdom herself in a more, well…scientific context. She interviewed sixty of the world’s wisest people over the course of several months, and arrived at eight scientifically provable elements of wisdom.
We kick off this fascinating conversation by talking about what Laura discovered during her research. Do we as men really ‘mellow with age’, or is something deeper really going on there? What is the proper response on the part of wise men to those who aren’t quite as wise just yet?
What is the important relationship between wisdom and respect? Why is it a mistake to treat wisdom and intelligence as synonyms? What exactly is ‘resilience’ and why is it a component of wisdom?
And wait a minute…what exactly is it that makes Laura’s eight elements ‘scientifically proven’, anyway? Add it all up, and it’s clear that wisdom is sort of the culmination of all sorts of different human virtue…making this episode absolutely essential.
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