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Do you agree that wisdom/critical thinking is a better predictor of well-being than intelligence? To answer, you will have to define what the following terms mean for you: 

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Critical thinking – To me, critical thinking is something that nurses will use in our everyday job. When taking care of the patient, we need to use a good reasoning to make the best judgement (Facione & Gittens, 2016) so our patient recovers and goes back home. Wisdom – Wisdom comes from the root meaning “to see” so it is associated to different words including evident, advice, idea, vision, view, etc (Burton, 2018). For this reason, I feel that the right definition of wisdom comes from gaining knowledge and making the choices which one believes are right from that step. Intelligence & Well-being – I think being intelligent and well-being would go hand in hand. A person who is intelligence and well-being would know how to handle work, and if they are unable to, then they know that they should ask for assistance instead of completing the assignment wrong.

Reflect on what you read in the text this week. Think of the people you know. 

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Are the good people smart? Are the smart people good? o I personally do not believe all good people are smart people nor smart people are good people. Some CEOs try to be smart by overworking their employees and raking in a lot of profit, however, they are not good by justifying the profits. How do you define "good"? How do you define "smart"? o I define good as being nice and friendly while completing your duties as a husband, wife, mother, father, child, friend, etc. On the other hand, I would define people as those who balance out their life and give attention to those who are the most valuable. For example, if a father was fulfilling plus over exceeding all his duties as being the money maker, it would be looked up as good. However, he would be defined as smart if he decided that the time spend on doing extra overtime could be better used on his children instead. Can we use our intelligence to become "good"? If yes, how? If no, why not? o Yes, we can use our intelligence to become “good”. A continuation from the father’s story, I would say the father would be intelligent if he only worked overtime on certain days, while planning out family time with his loved ones.

Burton, N. (2018, November 4). What is wisdom? Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201811/what-is-wisdom. Facione, P. A., & Gittens, C. A. (2016). Think critically (3rd ed.). Pearson....