It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.
