I manifest wisdom

The wisest thing available on most days is a delay. The reply written at eleven at night and sent at nine the next morning, after one read-through, is a different message entirely, and usually a shorter one.

Cleverness is fast. It wants to answer immediately, it is frequently right and occasionally catastrophic. What gets called wisdom is often just a willingness to be slower than you are capable of being.

You already know most of what you would need to know here. The gap is between knowing it and the twenty seconds it takes to consult what you know.