The peculiar wisdom here lies in recognizing that cleverness mistakes itself for power—it sees all the world's faults with crystalline clarity, yet remains oddly powerless to touch them. True wisdom, by contrast, makes the humbler discovery that the only person we've ever actually been able to reshape is the one staring back from the mirror. A manager who spends Monday drafting memos about what everyone else should do differently will accomplish less than one who spends Tuesday honestly examining her own habits—yet the first feels productive while the second feels like surrender. Rumi isn't counseling passivity; he's pointing out that self-knowledge is the only leverage we truly possess.