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Understanding wisdom is not a one-off event, but the quest of a lifetime. A quest is long search for something difficult to find or an attempt to achieve something difficult. A quest is different from an adventure. In a adventure, you choose to go out on an exciting journey. It spices up your life and then you come back home to pick up where you left off. By contrast a quest is not something you choose. Rather, the quest chooses you. You are called to it because of what is going to be demanded of you. In many ways the person you are at the beginning never really comes back from a quest. Either you die on the quest or, if you do come back, you are so fundamentally changed that you are not the same person as when you set out. Understanding wisdom is something of a quest. The more you learn the more you want to know. It is also incredibly life-enhancing and enriching. Acquiring wisdom is not like walking through a door for it to be given to you - game over. If it were a door you would only have to be given the key, turn the latch, and, hey presto, wisdom would be yours. The day-to-day media in particular leads us to expect such an easy result in our modern lives; that success is guaranteed by following only very simple steps. The power of technology encourages us to expect a limited set of straightforward steps for a quick and easy solution This second podcast conversation with my co-host Elliott Frisby is about wisdom for the heart. We discuss the circumstances around the sudden death of my friend, Abhishek Banerjee on 17 March 2014 and how that was a defining moment in my own life on my quest for wisdom. We discuss what the implications can be us as we seek to make sense of life in this often cynical, chaotic and confusing world. You can access the podcast on iTunes, your favourite podcast platform or watch on YouTube! For the iTunes link see here For the 26 minute YouTube video do see the YouTube channel If you haven’t yet downloaded the introduction to the book then you can do so from the home page. Who could you share that with? Also have you signed up for my virtual book launch on 17 March at 5.55pm -7.30pm GMT (1.55-3.30pm ET and 11.25pm -2am IST)? There is still time to do so at this link here Do feel free to leave your comments or questions from the podcast.