The Wisdom Paradox: When Success Becomes a Slow Descent

There's something profoundly unsettling about watching brilliance unravel. History is littered with stories of the exceptionally gifted who somehow lost their way—geniuses who made catastrophic decisions, leaders who compromised their principles, and wise men who ended foolishly. Perhaps no story illustrates this paradox better than that of Solomon, the wisest king who ever lived, whose forty-year reign became a cautionary tale about the cost of compromise.