What You Know, and What You Know You Don’t Know that you know…

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We all know that a person who flaunts their knowledge often isn’t fun to be around — but take comfort, that might indicate that they’re not very good thinkers, either.

Social scientists know that possessing a high level of intellectual humility is associated with multiple positive outcomes, like having more empathy, more prosocial behavior, reduced susceptibility to misinformation and an increased inclination to seek compromise in challenging interpersonal disagreements.

The author spends the rest of the article examining how this is just one dimention of being a good thinker, but it remains an important one.

In The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived, I dedicate a couple of sections to the fact that having a lot of knowledge can blind us even more than it shows us, especially in an era where a lot of the conventional wisdom gets stood on its ear by new expectations, new contexts, new technology. In such a world, having knowledge but not having the humility to see what new insights might be arising is like putting your brain in a lead box. It won’t be able to do anything of value.