Jeff Moore distinguishes between wisdom you're taught and wisdom you live through, arguing that sharing your actual experiences with nuance is what sticks with people. The space between the notes matters as much as the notes themselves.
I'm going to talk more about wisdom in this and the two types of wisdom. Okay. There's like, you can hear somebody speak and go, "Oh, that's really wise. And that, you know, I'm really gonna do my best to live by that." But then there's wisdom that's experienced. And that experience is where, if you want to make an impact in the world, you share your experiences. You know, people go, "Oh, you know, it's a learning experience. And, you know, once I fail, you know, it's, it's good because I've learned." You don't have to fail. You can actually use other people's experiences and wisdom. And so I've got a little poem that says, "Wisdom taught is fleeting like the single drop of rain, but wisdom experienced remains and flows through the soul like a mighty river for all eternity." And I think that when I share my experiences and what I learned from those experiences, and I share it in such a way that people can experience it as it was happening to them, it becomes that visceral experience that lives within them for all eternity. And I think that, you know, um, there's a lot of kids out there that are reading books and taking programs and turning around and acting as if they are the expert. But as we get into our, you know, 50s and 60s, um, and we have experiences in dealing with things, and quite might I say the nuances of these lessons, if you will, that we've experienced. And as a musician, you know Nuance is the space between the notes that make the music. Right? And so that's the thing that I think has, that it's the experienced, the wisdom experience is the things that we can share. And that people are expecting to go, "I don't know what I could share. I don't have any. I don't have anything I can share." Let's talk about what is the, what is the most memorable experience you've ever had in your life? You know, and all of a sudden they tell you, and a guy like me is going to go, this is what's important to somebody. This is what you can do to help somebody with that. You don't have to become this big enterprise owner, but you can start having small conversations and put yourself in front of, you know, young professionals and, and, and, you know, young hungry people that are looking for that, or even adults that are confused. You have something to share because you have experiences to share.
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