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What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?
research on intellectual humility has exploded in the past 10 years. Psychologists now have many different ways to assess intellectual humility. Social scientists know that possessing a high level of intellectual humility is associated with multiple positive outcomes, like having more empathy, more prosocial behavior, reduced susceptibility to misi... See more
Eranda Jayawickreme • Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
Laura Pike Seeley added
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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Intellectual Humility Has Recently Been Hailed as the Key to Thinking Well. The Story of Barbara McClintock Proves Otherwise
Rachel Fraseraeon.co
Humility is openness to new learning combined with a balanced and accurate assessment of our contributions, including our strengths, imperfections, and opportunities for growth. I can sum up humility with one sentence that emerged from the research that informed Dare to Lead: I’m here to get it right, not to be right.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Arrogance is ignorance plus conviction,” blogger Tim Urban explains. “While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.”
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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Humility is a competitive advantage. The most powerful truths are those that our hyper-stimulated egoic societies have discarded. The most effective people are those that can develop a profound relationship with what others deem boring.
Daniel Kazandjian • Greatness isn't Grandiose
Stuart Evans added
Learning and humility are kissing cousins. Humility is a celebration of the awareness that you are a part of something much greater than yourself. Holding this form of humility as a present sensibility calibrates an engagement with the world as interconnected. Through humility, we see ourselves in relationship to other forces. An ecology of relatio
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The problem is motivated skepticism a.k.a. disconfirmation bias—more heavily scrutinizing assertions that we don’t want to believe. Humility, in its most commonly misunderstood form, is a fully general excuse not to believe something; since, after all, you can’t be sure. Beware of fully general excuses!