do you find that maturity and wisdom make you less sensitive?

Answer 1

Maturity and wisdom go hand in hand with your experience of the world around you. The answer is NO - as although you may increase your wisdom with your maturing years, you will also become MORE sensitive. Why? - because your experience and wisdom have taught you the consequences of things that occur or that people do, and knowing those consequences you are more sensitive to those occurrences and actions. You may not appear to BE sensitive or to be affected by what you see or hear, but in your thoughts and mind you may recoil, be alarmed, be saddened or upset and thus be sympathetic and empathise with those who suffer. After all, sensitivity is based on understanding.

Answer 2

Wisdom is intelligence in action/application; using wisdom in ways that are unselfish and for the sake of others is maturity. So few of us have experienced both that the question may be very hard to answer - but a VERY VALUABLE question nevertheless.

My answer to your question is a big N _ O. But...Less sensitive? Compared to what? To Kill a Mockingbird is a good book to re-read today in view of the fact that we may actually be more sensitive to race issues, females taking initiative and things like that. Some do not see the child abuse in this book/movie. Some do. Maturity-Wisdom-Sensitivity? Excellent insights from all the answers thus far.

Answer 3

Great question in deed. I have thought about it a lot but i have not yet come to a conclusion but I'm almost there. Yes, I think if we think that maturity and wisdom comes with age then it seems that we become less sensitive as we grow older. Maybe there is a reason that after seeing so many things in our life we learn to distinguish between sentimentality and sensitivity. For example we all know that death is an inevitable for all of us but when our parents die we find it very, very hard to accept it. Each year we see our friends, relatives, the people pass away and we learn to accept certain harsh realities of our life. When someone dies we are just prepared to take it without much resentment of sorts. I think in many ways its our own survival instinct that is at work when we get less sensitive about things.

Answer 4

Six and two threes. With maturity and wisdom, you get better at understanding others, so yes, you would be sensitive towards things in that way. But I also think that with accumulated experience, you gain a good idea of what to expect from certain situations in life, and you possibly don't worry as much, or become as sensitive to the outcome, as when you were younger.

Answer 5

i don't think so because it depends on the person one can be mature and have wisdom but is very sensitive and one can be immature and have wisdom and be sensitive again. So, the answer lies in the individual and how they handle specific situations which makes them either sensitive or insensitive.

That was a good question

Answer 6

Your question is a little ambiguous. Less sensitive to what? I hope the following is the answer you are looking for:
In general, maturity and wisdom tends to make a person more empathetic and sympathetic. We tend to build more understanding of life and people.
If you mean that older people become less embarrassed about the ramifications of relationships, such as women talking openly to men, and discussing life issues, then yes we become desensitised to worrying about what people think. Older people are more open. When we are young, we worry about what our peers think and how they perceive us. Younger people tend to act a certain way to try to make an impression. They do not want to be seen to be 'un cool.' The older and wiser you get, you tend to break down these barriers to communication.

Answer 7

theres two sorts of wisdom:

intellectual accumulation, leading to increasing levels of cleverness resulting in what some people refer to as wisdom.

and heightened common sense, born of the desire to know the truth, resulting in what could be called wisdom.

one is abstract and theoretical, the sort of sterile thing people go in for as a university discipline [and which however clever sounding shatters when it comes into contact with real life]...
and the other is a natural outgrowth of a mind that wants to know the actual truth and is not satisfied by theories.

intellectual wisdom makes you less sensitive because it feeds into the ego, generating intellectual smugness and conceit, it makes you search for other peoples insights and turns you into a second hand person, able to parrot the realizations of others.

the other is motivated by a desire to understand the truth..and is founded on the perception of people and situations. i would be inclined to call this the genuine article. it makes you sensitive to everything that is happening around you...rather than being conceptual and analytical.

Answer 8

Maurity makes you more sensitive to life, as you are able to recognise the small symtoms much easier the second time around, but less likely to geniune reactions, as the wisdom you gather allong the way makes you a little bit more sensitive to the down side of your own actions, so you become more guarded, and cautious to your own reactions.

Answer 9

Great question!

Personally, I think that wisdom and maturity make you a little more intelligenabout what to be sensitive to rather than being cynical about everything or optimistic about everything.

I would consider that asI mature, I'm more discerning about what I am sensitive to, no longer wasting my energy on that which is underserving.

Answer 10

No, though it certainly may seem that way to those around me.

I believe the years of experience have made me extremely sensitive to every nuance of what is happening around me.
The wisdom I have managed to gain allows me to be far more selective about what inspires a reaction and given the ability to direct that reaction in a more effective manner.

An observer may not realize that a lack of reaction in no way indicates inability to 'see', but a choice to overlook or withhold action until it can make a difference.