Rather than simply depending on sensory pleasures for
short - term escape from pain and / or a
fleeting experiences of joy / happiness, wise mind may improve radical acceptance, sensory soothing, and responding inter-personally with wisdom (kindness, respect, compassion).
As that changes, thanks to the magnificent science now being done on climate, they'll need some appreciation for how to manage situations described 2,500 years ago by the Hippocratic aphorism, «Life is
short, the art long, opportunity
fleeting,
experience treacherous, judgment difficult.