Intellectual Humility Is a Cop-Out
Can intellectual humility be cultivated? I believe so. Intellectual humility recognizes the limits of one’s intellect, how easily it errs, and the sheer number of things that we do not yet know. But intellectual humility is also the acceptance that we often need more time to digest and understand something—even of our own experiences in life—before... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
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Cultivate intellectual humility
The world is messy and full of ambiguities. Intellectual humility is about embracing complexity instead of trying to collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat, binary ideology.
Cultivate intellectual humility
The world is messy and full of ambiguities. Intellectual humility is about embracing complexity instead of trying to collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat, binary ideology.
sari azout • Principles for sharing on the Internet
What we want to attain is confident humility: having faith in our capability while appreciating that we may not have the right solution or even be addressing the right problem.