Simplesmente um dos melhores vídeos que eu já vi na vida!!!! Assitam 1, 2, 3 um milhão de vezes, é impossível cansar ou ignorar o que é dito nessa apresentação de Barry Schwartz no TED (aproveitem e vejam os outros vídeos disponíveis), um dos melhores eventos para geração de insight e para fechar a boca e abrir a mente através do ouvir.

É incrível como simples coisas podem ser ignoradas pela preguiça de pensar, simplesmente seguindo a regra porque ela existe.

Não seja simplesmente um executor. PENSE, usa a sabedoria, que como é dito no vídeo vem com o tempo, mas é preciso praticá-la.

Interesting discussion on what makes one wise...

Job description of a hospital janitor: mop the floors, stock the cabinets, empty the trash.... Not a single thing involves other human beings. But when psychologists interviewed hospital janitors, they encountered many people who were very aware of others and this awareness directly affects the well-being of patients in the hospital. They encountered wisdom.

Wisdom depends on experience. You need time to get to know the people you are serving and to care for people. You need permission to try new things, to fail and to learn from your failures. You need wise mentors.

Good news: You don't need to be brilliant to be wise. Bad news: Without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough. It's as likely to get you and other people into trouble as anything else.

Rules and procedures spare us from thinking. When things go wrong, we reach for rules - better ones and more of them. The second we reach for is incentives - better ones and more of them.

Neither rules nor incentives are enough to do the job. Rules and incentives create a downward spirals that makes things worse in the long run. Moral skill is chipped away by an over reliance on rules that incentives deprive us from our ability to learn by our improvisation and they destroy our desire to do the right thing. By appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaged in a war on wisdom.

By trying to insure ourselves against disaster, we are creating mediocrity.

There are no incentives that are ever going to be smart enough. Excessive reliance on incentives demoralizes professional activity. They lose moral and the activity loses morality.

It is every day practical wisdom that will rebuild our world.

Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.

Barry Schwartz studies the relationship between economics and psychology, delivering startling insights into modern life. His latest field of inquiry: wisdom.

A beautiful and insightful talk that gives some very practical goals to strive for in empowering the general public with "wisdom", which some would just call "common sense".

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