Compassionate Person According To Staudinger

In Staudinger article, “A Psychology of Wisdom: History and Recent Developments,” she discuses the basis on how most people characterize a wise individual in psychology and what people can gain from being or becoming wise. According to Staudinger, historically some people would consider a wise individual to be someone who possessed natural born intelligence/common sense or an older person who gained wisdom through years of experience. Common sense means practical or wise judgments.
According to Staudinger, a proper definition of a wise person is an individual who is empathetic, compassionate, intuitive, introspective, experienced, and intelligent. Empathetic person can feel and understand what the other person is going though without being judgmental. Compassionate person tends to be sympathetic towards other individuals. An intuitive person is someone who understands the world around them and is able to recognize and resolve the problem. An introspective person can examine one’s own mental and emotional state. A person who is experienced usually has knowledge on that particular
issue because they either experienced it for themselves or perhaps studied it. A person with high intelligence is someone who posses the skills of being smart either in a particular area or multiple areas.
A wise person also posses qualities of being doubtful, well balanced emotions, motivated, thoughtful, and has good leadership skills. A doubtful person tends to understand that they might not always be right and tend to analyze every situation. A person with well-balanced emotions understands tends to have a greater understanding of themselves. People who are highly motivated tend to believe in oneself and not be reliant on others. A good leader that is wise can direct anyone in the proper direction in order to give them the best advice. These qualities are important to psychologists because it is pretty much the foundation of most of their teachings. One tends to go to a psychologist to seek advice on a issue in their life because they tend to posses the knowledge about how one can solve that issue. Which indeed makes a psychologist wise or full of wisdom. According to Staudinger, not one person would want to seek advice from an unwise or unknowledgeable individual. A psychologist’s goal is to try and help one individual to help pass on to other individuals. Otherwise known as paying it forward. A wise person lives and breathes a practical practical life style. However, psychologists study two parts of wisdom called lay conceptions of wisdom and measurement of individual’s wisdom. According to the author, individuals can gain a lot from being wise or becoming wise.
You can gain a lot from knowing a wise person because odds are you will learn from them and pass on that knowledge to other individuals who may need your advice. (Lend a helping hand) Being wise can also gives you an advantage in workplace, at making friends, and helping others. According to Staudinger, you do not need to have all the qualities she listed in order to be considered wise. You only need to possess one of the many areas to be considered wise. Becoming wise is often seen as being a hard thing to accomplish when it’s really not. Wisdom can be achieved through studying, learning from experience, and by passing down knowledge. If Wisdom had a philosophy it would be that you should learn from one’s mistake and pass on that knowledge to others so that they can avoid the same
fate. According to the author, recent developments show that wisdom can be deeply influential in psychology. Psychologists tend to find that people who are wise tend to be well-balanced in the world and live a healthy lifestyle.