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Confident humility can be taught.
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Confident humility doesn’t just open our minds to rethinking – it improves the quality of our rethinking.
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When adults have the confidence to acknowledge what they don’t know, they pay more attention to how strong evidence is and spend more time reading material that contradicts their opinions.
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The most effective leaders score high in both confidence and humility. Although they have faith in their strengths, they’re also keenly aware of their weaknesses.
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…confidence can make us complacent. If we never worry about letting other people down, we’re more likely to actually do so.
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Plenty of evidence suggests that confidence is just as often the result of progress as the cause of it.
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We don’t have to wait for confidence to rise to achieve challenging goals. We can build it through achieving challenging goals.
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Arrogance leaves us blind to our weaknesses. Humility is a reflective lens: it helps us see them clearly. Confident humility is a corrective lens: it enables us to overcome those weaknesses.
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Research suggests that identifying even a single reason why we might be wrong can be enough to curb overconfidence.
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Task conflict can be constructive when it brings diversity of thought, preventing us from getting trapped in overconfidence cycles. It can help us stay humble, surface doubts, and make us curious about what we might be missing.
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