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Photo : jorisvo ( Shutterstock ) The second king of Israel, Solomon is sometimes called the“wisest man who ever lived.” Those who sought his counsel left with perfect answers to even the stickiest problems, even if he had to threatened to cut a baby in half . But Solomon’s own life was a shit show. He had hundreds of wives and concubines (which sounds sexy at first, but imagine trying to navigate that amount polyamory, or having hundreds of people telling you to take out the garbage). He gave in to his most base desires, worshipped false idols even though he was on speaking terms with God himself, and generally cocked everything up so badly it lead to the downfall of his entire nation. In other words, Solomon could advise everyone but himself. What is Solomon’s Paradox? Our ability to reason about other people’s lives and problems while not being able to do so for ourselves has been dubbed the “Solomon’s Paradox,” and the phenomenon has been studied extensively by social scientis...