The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

Intellectual humility fosters open-mindedness and respectful dialogue. It involves acknowledging the limitations of our knowledge and genuinely valuing diverse perspectives. Intellectually humble ...

In recent years there has been a lot of talk (and significant research evidence) that high-level leaders who possess “humility” are more successful than those who lack it. Indeed, leaders who are at ...

The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and a catalyst for more productive political dialogue. While ...

I was strolling up the hill in Greater Boston to a French cooking class. The rich aroma of melting butter and fresh herbs greeted us as it wafted through the chilly fall air. My friend Sylvie and I ...

We can all be our own harshest critics, yet we all have “critical” blind spots, too. I’m talking about those underdeveloped parts of our personalities we don’t care to reveal or that we are reluctant ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

Embarc Collective, a Tampa-based nonprofit accelerator network for technology startups, is celebrating five-year anniversaries for 96 percent of its startup community. CEO Lakshmi Shenoy founded the ...

When my colleagues and I first started studying humility more than a decade ago, I didn’t really think it would amount to much. It struck me as a relatively uninteresting virtue – if even a virtue at ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jen Cole Wright, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) The default psychological ...