Listen & Learn: Listen to Wisdom

Week 2 of the series "Listen & Learn". There are principles to healthy living that are obvious if we are listening. We know that wearning a seatbelt increases our chances of surviving an accident. Spending time with your fiance's family helps you prepare for marriage. Reading a contract before signing it helps avoid a bad financial decision. Having said that, we still struggle to listen to the voice of reason and so made bad decisions. Wisdom is not difficult to find if we are listening for it. Some of the greatest obstacles to finding wisdom are passion (we get fixated or obsessed and ignore reason) and misguided compassion (we try to help people avoid the consequences of their actions). Wisdom means we need to stop, evaluate our motivation, consider the implications and make difficult decisions in light of long term benefits - not short term gain.