Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But achieving intellectual humility is hard. Overconfidence is a persistent problem, faced by many, and does not appear to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes the evidence points you in a new direction. Schon/Moment via Getty Images Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of ...

There are a lot of reasons behind the political polarization of the country and the deterioration of civic discourse. I wonder if a lack of humility is one of them. In his recent book, The Death of ...

Some psychological topics become popular to the point of boredom, such as intellectual humility. "Be humble, and proudly" say psychologists in The New York Times. Get "a lesson in intellectual ...

What does it mean to be a good thinker? Recent research suggests that acknowledging you can be wrong plays a vital role. I had these studies in mind a few months ago when I was chatting with a history ...

In July 2022, the GGSC announced the 19 winners of our grants to support the production of innovative nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. In addition to financial support, offered in ...

The greatest challenge to fruitful dialogue, debate, and activism at Boston College is not a lack of intelligence or ignorance among students, but rather what I have diagnosed as an attitude of ...

In the high-speed corporate ecosystem, there is a seductive trap for the high-performing professional: the illusion that technical mastery equates to organizational understanding. Many leaders arrive ...

Early in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science fiction blockbuster “Project Hail Mary,” middle school teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, is tasked by an international coalition to ...

Violent attacks on political opponents. Fear of giving an inch to a contrasting point of view. The rise of macho masculinity. These are among the manifestations of a hardening of our political and ...

Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence—to be models of faith and strength. But wise leadership also means ...

What does it mean to be a good thinker? Recent research suggests that acknowledging you can be wrong plays a vital role. I had these studies in mind a few months ago when I was chatting with a history ...