The Latin word nescius came into Spanish as fool . This is how the ignorant individual is classified as not having knowledge of what he should or could know.
Fool also refers to the subject who lacks reason or intelligence and to the one who is stubborn or obstinate in his sayings and actions . It should be noted that the term can be used as an adjective or as a noun.
For example: "Do not try to make a fool understand something who is not willing to listen to you" , "You are a fool, if you continue acting that way you will be alone" , "I am not a fool, I am always willing to change when the facts They show me that I am wrong .
Generally the concept is used with reference to someone who is stubborn or stubborn and, for that reason, persists in his or her mistakes . The fool has no intention of observing or analyzing the consequences of his actions; Nor does he reflect on the way in which reality affects his plans or decisions.
Suppose that a man , despite the advice of his family and friends, decides to invest all his savings in a commercial project of unlikely success . As the months go by, the business does not stop making losses: this person, however, requests several loans to continue investing in the venture. His loved ones insist that he is having the wrong view and warn him that he is putting his financial situation at risk, but he does not listen to them. Finally, out of foolishness, he ends up in bankruptcy . If he had listened to those around him, this man would not be going through such a serious situation.
Having said all this, we can take a look at a list of synonyms for the term fool , which help us replace it in a long text to avoid repetition. Some of the ones below are stronger than others, and are used as insults, while others have a less broad meaning: imbecile, fool, fool, idiot, oaf, stupid, jerk, donkey, idiot, memo, inept, stupid, ignorant, yokel and idiot . Regarding antonyms, we can mention the following four: intelligent, cultured, wise and clever .
Among the synonyms just listed, we notice that several of them focus on intelligence, just one of the aspects that the word fool "critics", so to speak. Let us not forget that intelligence is "the ability to understand, to solve problems", and in this case obstinacy must also be combined, for example, which is defined as "absurd insistence on a decision or action."
By calling someone a fool, therefore, we complain about their lack of will, perhaps, when it comes to analyzing one or more alternatives to their own decisions . At first, his ideas do not have to be negative or uncreative, but only when a third party hears them does he discover that it is not in his best interest to carry them out and that is when his foolishness gets in the way and prevents the other's advice from helping him. improve.
Returning to the example of the entrepreneurship in which man invests his money, it could well be an attractive plan that at some point would have borne fruit but is currently no longer convenient, for different reasons. The subject's lack of intelligence, therefore, is not necessarily noticed at the moment of having decided to bet on him, but when he rejects the help of those around him despite explaining with ample reasons that the risk is too high.
If we only stayed with the meaning that words like fool or idiot can provide, entrepreneurship could consist of throwing your money in a water fountain and making a wish.