Erikson Tact vs. "Wisdom"
Channel: ProfessorKarcher
Date: 2014-11-03

In this adaptation of an interview of Joan Erikson, she recasts the final stage as reflecting the virtue of tact or being tactful (prioritizing it over the conventional view of wisdom or "being wise," as the apex of human development). Seems worth sharing with others that it is better to be attentive of what touches others than to assume that what you have learned in life will be necessarily of help to others--it may be, but likely not as much as your tactful caring as a way of being with others.