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The Psychological Price of Intellectual Humility (opens the original)
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When I first became interested in critical thinking and decision-making, I thought intellectual humility was almost an unqualified virtue. The idea seemed obvious: if new evidence appears, you should be willing to change your mind. Better decisions come from a more accurate picture of reality.Over time, though, I started noticing a problem. Living with a constant awareness that you might be wrong about almost everything is hard. It is not just cognitively demanding. It is unpleasant. Yesterday I
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