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After stops in all four of Canada’s Western provinces, Jim Carey’s family settled in Winnipeg in 1967, where he has lived ever since. He graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for a small, family-owned custom steel manufacturer for more than three decades, specializing in the field of operational excellence. From there, he worked for the Winnipeg division of a global aerospace parts manufacturer until retiring in 2017 to dedicate time to the ideas that led to the publication of The Wisdom Theory.

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“Exceptional intelligence is to a life what a fast vehicle is to a journey. Wisdom is about knowing the right direction. Whether intelligence is an asset or a liability depends on the context.”
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“Everything a subject knows is the subject’s knowledge. Everything the subject does not know is the subject’s ignorance. A subject’s knowledge expands when and because the subject’s ignorance is revealed via the wise option. The more a subject knows, the more the subject knows how little the subject knows.”
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“Every expression of wisdom knowledge is different because every context is different. Every genetically inherited copy of wisdom knowledge is identical to the first copy of the social instinct that triggered our species’ origin.”
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