Interpretation

“Interpretation” is often an attempt to adapt to the absence of evidence, or an attempt to adapt to contradictory evidence.”

Although interpreting the law is a common practice in legal and judicial settings, even in such circumstances, interpretation is undertaken in order to compensate for the lack of factual evidence. However, in personal and social circumstances, interpretation is often engaged as a subtle means of deception to ignore or deny the dislikable evidence. If the truth, as represented by the evidence, is dislikable or painful, interpretation helps deception; especially self-deception, so that we can continue holding on to our preferred mindset.

Therefore, to deal with reality as reality is, and not as we want reality to be, we must minimize interpretation and we must adapt to the evidence, regardless of how facts make us feel.

Hence why Theory of Self-Relativity defines wisdom as:

“The effective application of experience and knowledge that is constantly evolving and which is not contingent upon subjective-interpretations.”

In other words:

“Wisdom is to see reality as how reality is; not as how we want reality to be.”