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Humility is often misunderstood. It’s not a matter of having low self-confidence… It’s about being grounded – recognizing that we’re flawed and fallible.
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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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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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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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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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Recent experiments show that having even one negotiator who brings a scientist’s level of humility and curiosity improves outcomes for both parties…
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An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case… We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.
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Whomever we’re educating, we can express more humility, exude more curiosity, and introduce the children in our lives to the infectious joy of discovery.
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It takes confident humility to admit that we’re a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.
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