{"id":8677,"date":"2017-03-26T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:43:20","slug":"intellectual-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/03\/26\/intellectual-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual humility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Grant pointed to How \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIntellectual Humility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Can Make You a Better Person<\/a> which I found intriguing.<\/p>\n

We all have a tendency to overestimate how much we know \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which, in turn, means that we often cling stubbornly to our beliefs while tuning out opinions different from our own. We generally believe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better or more correct than everyone else<\/a>, or at least better than most people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a psychological quirk that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as true for politics and religion as it is for things like fashion and lifestyles. And in a time when it seems like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all more convinced than ever of our own rightness, social scientists have begun to look more closely at an antidote: a concept called intellectual humility<\/a>… which\u00c2\u00a0has to do with understanding the limits of one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s knowledge. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a state of openness to new ideas, a willingness to be receptive to new sources of evidence<\/a>, and it comes with significant benefits: People with intellectual humility are both better learners<\/a> and better able to engage in civil discourse. Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VP in charge of hiring, Laszlo Bock, has claimed it as one of the top qualities<\/a> he looks for in a candidate: Without intellectual humility, he has said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you are unable to learn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how my wanting to explain things<\/a> tied in with my\u00c2\u00a0Imposter Syndrome<\/a> derails the above overestimations. There is a thing in the back of my head looking to find fault in myself.\u00c2\u00a0So in going to explain something and realizing my weaknesses, my confirmation bias is to think, “Of course, I don’t understand it as well as I ought.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Grant pointed to How \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIntellectual Humility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Can Make You a Better Person which I found intriguing. We all have a tendency to overestimate how much we know \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which, in turn, means that we often cling stubbornly to our beliefs while tuning out opinions different from our own. We generally believe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1209,462],"tags":[3265,2681,3073,3264],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-philosophy","category-psychology","tag-adam-grant","tag-confirmation-bias","tag-critical-thinking","tag-imposter-syndrome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2fX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}