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Don't Mistake Your Knowledge for Wisdom

WISDOM SNUCK UP on me. I wasn't looking for it. It didn't amiounce itself. And, quite frankly, I thought for a long time that knowledge and wisdom were twins. I've come to learn they're cousins.

In 2013, when the three young Airbnb founders approached me about becoming their “modem elder,” they brought me on for my knowledge. I, too, thought my greatest asset would be my understanding of and experience with the travel industry. Little did I know, my insight into that industry was only one of the benefits I brought to the founders and their team.

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky has an insatiable appetite to

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