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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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If we care about accuracy, we can’t afford to have blind spots. To get an accurate picture of our knowledge and skills, it can help to assess ourselves like scientists looking through a microscope.
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Some surveys suggest that more than half the people you know have felt like impostors at some point in their careers.
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When our imposter fear crops up, the usual advice is to ignore them… Instead, we might be better off embracing those fears…
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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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Imposters may be the last to jump in, but they may also be the last to bail out.
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Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.
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