Erudite people are individuals who have in their mind a notorious amount of information on one or several fields. Superficial erudite individuals, on the other hand, are individuals who consider their opinion as true information.

It has to be considered that chess-masters, having more than 100,000 positions in their minds, are not considered as erudite individuals but as “masters”.

The purpose of erudition is to build the self-esteem of the erudite individual. That is what makes the difference with the chess-masters who nurture their self-esteem based on the results they obtain when they play in real life.

There are cultures in which erudition is considered a “must”. Basically, these cultures lack self-esteem among their members. “Opinators” are their “national heroes”.

Erudition is driven by the need to accumulate information and knowledge, which becomes a functional effort to feel superior and an apparent solution to the inferiority complexes, while in fact emphasizes it.

Erudite people need to live in parallel realities where the enormous amount of information they have appears to be useful. They are intellectual fundamentalists that need to break the bridge between them and real life. We have named them pseudo-intellectuals.

That is why erudition is the anti-concept of wisdom.

Access:

Wisdom is a pathway with many masters
http://unicist.info/complexity-sciences/wisdom-is-a-pathway-with-many-masters/

 Beware of erudite individuals, they will always oppose in a more or less subtle way. But if you meet them, you can help them to evolve towards wisdom. They just need to learn that:

If you feel sore, give…..
Giving you will recover

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