The mission of the Wisdom-Centered Life is to help individuals and their institutions attain wisdom. That is, attaining profound insight into reality and making the best possible choices.
It is postulated that there is a developmental trajectory for humans that ends in wisdom. If not an inherent trajectory, then a developmental possibility.
Humans are not wise. As a species we are perhaps no wiser than Homo erectus was a master of language. It will take heroic efforts from many people in order for humans to fulfill the potential of Homo sapiens to become wise. It is the mission of the Wisdom-Centered Life to help humans realize this potential. It is sometimes said that if science can do something, it will. If humans can become wise, we will and we must.
Not everybody can or should dedicate the time and effort to becoming wise. Each person starts from a different view of the world, with different constraints and limits, and different possibilities. But there are some key wisdom-related behaviors, attitudes, and perspectives that will be helpful for almost all people in almost all situations. For example, impulse control, empathy, recognition of the limits of one's knowledge, and openness to new experience. The task is to keep moving toward the goal.