‘Wisdom is not a shift from me to you, but a shift from me to us.’*

What if wisdom exists in the following forms?

Wisdom 1.0: Often passed from others and seen as good enough for was we want to do in life, so lacks questioning; it’s expressed in heuristics and doesn’t worry too much about what others think.

Wisdom 2.0: There’s more wisdom than we first thought – it can be made to work for us and change our circumstances, and, to some extent, used for the good of others; wisdom is a valuable commodity and is scalable.

Wisdom 3.0: Wisdom exists in everyone, even in our planet and the universe, so we begin exploring what wisdom looks like from the perspective of others, stepping into their shoes; wisdom isn’t so scarce, and we have come a long way from the monochrome “wisdom according to me.”

Wisdom 4.0: Wisdom is far from fixed, it’s unfolding, and more, it’s something we discover and create and live within together; wisdom is abundant because there’s always more to come, it’s increasingly inclusive, abides in all relationships, and new relationships are constantly being formed within it.

What if Wisdom 4.0 is our future?  A future of endless, unfolding possibilities for making all things thrive?

(*From Erwin McManus’s Uprising. Erwin’s “me and you” and “me and us” echoes Otto Scharmer’s “I-in-me,” “I-in-you,” and “I-in-us”; Otto also has “I-in-it” between the first two: see his Theory U.)