The ability to sustain the process of ‘learning the world’ is both a precondition for practical wisdom and its happy consequence: insight breeds insight, and wisdom reveals knowledge to be rewarding, while making its burden feel lighter and the bearer happier. The cognitive faculty that makes all this possible is memory.
Excerpt from “The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life” . Taken from the chapter, “Learning to Think for Yourself”, which describes our accumulation of knowledge based on our experiences in the world, and how burdensome that could be if not seeing as adding to our understanding of that world. This book is amazing, to say the least. Read it.

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