I’ve gutted out 3 careers in “skilled labor” (a term I find problematic), each time working from the bottom entry level guy, to the guy in charge. In all three I’ve worked side by side with people who actually got degrees in that field.

I have also regretted not getting a degree for my entire adult life.

Wisdom is intelligence applied. Or perhaps, wisdom is the synthesis of intelligence.

Will Hunting starts out the movie with mad intelligence and little to no wisdom, and the movie is the story of him shifting from one to the other.

Brown sugar by the Rolling Stones. My Sherona.

For those like me who are uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loona

And the person from the thumbnail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuu

I think it’s more like sending a second out of control train to catch the first one. There’s no doubt eah train will crash, and that it will be bad, but now we have more variables as to which will crash first and how bad, with the exciting new possibility of each making each other worse than they would have been.