Though the Global South tends to experience higher disease burdens, most public health decisions and knowledge generation are centered in the Global North.
Intellectual humility includes owning your own biases and the possibility that you’re wrong about your beliefs or worldview. It means being open to changing your mind in response to new information.
Managers can set the tone by showing their own openness to feedback, ideas and suggestions.
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Do you dread delivering or receiving feedback at work? Two organizational behavior experts describe a better way to have these difficult conversations.
Humility among health care providers can help prevent burnout.
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Humility doesn’t get the fanfare of virtues like courage, compassion or generosity. But without humility, those other virtues won’t get much traction in the quest to live a good life.
David Dunning and Justin Kruger tested psychology students to see whether the least skilled were also the most unaware.
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The idea that the least skilled are the most unaware of their incompetency is pervasive in science and pop culture. But a new analysis of the data shows that the Dunning-Kruger effect may not be true.
The most important part of knowledge, in Socrates’ view? Knowing how much you don’t know.
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Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.
Clinical guidelines can change when new research provides contradictory findings.
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How doctors care for their patients is highly influenced by clinical guidelines. Recommendations based on anecdotal experience or poor data can harm patients.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks on Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del.
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On Nov. 7, when President-elect Joe Biden urged in his address that we “give each other a chance,” his words summoned Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address of 1865.
What happens when everyone thinks they’re smarter than everyone else?
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A growing body of research points to the importance of one personality trait – intellectual humility – and how it influences our learning, relationships and worldview.
Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is first and foremost, a spiritual leader, a man of deep prayer. This motivated his participation in supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle.
Humility is a desirable trait in CEOs.
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At a time when politics is showing its most divisive side, a scholar argues that embracing humility could help us deal with hidden biases.
Others might be more inspired by American democracy if the US were widely seen to be a just and tolerant society and its leading politicians were not loudmouthed xenophobes.
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The value of democracy needs to be restated and defended, rather than presumed. In doing so, there is value in adopting a more tempered stance, one that understands its worth but also its flaws.
Donald Trump’s boastful and bullying leadership style encapsulates many of the worst features and sentiments of today’s world.
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In a world out of balance, one in which arrogance and unaccountability combine in a corrosive synergy, humility can offer a powerful alternative vision of how to approach democratic government.
Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
Chief Medical Officer at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California