Voluntary confrontation with the things one fears or avoids is the essential practice for developing bravery and overcoming self-deception.

“if you get people to voluntarily confront what they're afraid of avoiding disgusted by and inclined to be willfully blind about they get bravery”

Wisdom is the cultivated ability to differentiate between the inevitable limits of finitude and the failures in action or perception that lead to unnecessary suffering.

“wisdom is about being able to differentiate those and properly calibrate your efforts to that differentiation”