Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
Eranda Jayawickremetheconversation.com
Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
they question and rethink their own assumptions, readily admit and learn from mistakes, moderate their confidence in a given hypothesis based on the strength of the evidence, and actively keep their own biases in check. But it also means they push for deep understanding (e.g., via identification of first principles) on issues that really matter,... See more
Gena Gorlin • Intellectual Humility Is a Cop-Out
Being intellectually humble involves embrac ing uncertainty and ambiguity, and 305 entertain ing the possibility that even one’s closely held beliefs might be incorrect
Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility
Because they realize that their beliefs might be wrong, intellectually humble people pay more attention to the quality of the evidence on which their beliefs are based.