"Wise individuals can learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid have all the answers already." Socrates
I like Socrates and have written a few cartoons featuring him. When I came across this quote I thought it very insightful. We can learn from the experience of others without having to make the same mistakes but it is not a common skill.
There is a wisdom we can find in other cultures - reading Thucydides I am struck not by the differences but rather the similarities. I particularly enjoy hearing proverbs from other cultures such as the chinese proverb re Shakespeare "A thousand hamlets, a thousand voices". What proverbs would you contribute to my collection?
Ephesus must be one of the most interesting and maybe comes close to Pompeii in being a whole city excavated.
A Greek island such as Crete. Having loved their summer I would like to experience their winter. It would be a step towards emigrating. I find the Greek culture very friendly, family oriented and welcoming. (Their warm climate, sunshine and beaches have a little to do with my love of Greeks and Greece)
I have come to realise that my one skill is perhaps 'synthesis'. It is not so much in discovering something new but rather in joining the dots to see something from a new perspective. If I have a "superpower" it is asking questions (lovely scene in Avengers when spiderman asks batman what his superpower is, Bruce replies I'm rich)
Babylon 5, The Peloponnesian War by Thuclydides, The Natural History of Scotland (NN series),