Intellectual Humility & Leadership

Intellectual humility is positively associated with knowledge acquisition, learning and educational achievement. Those who are intellectually humble tend to be more motivated to learn and are more knowledgeable about general facts. Highschool and university students who ae intellectually humble tend to expend greater effort when learning difficult material, are more receptive to assignment feedback, and earn higher grades. Studies have shown that individuals who are intellectually humble tend to be more curious, make more well-informed decisions, appear more open to cooperating with those who held differing views, and were better liked as leaders. Recent studies have shown that leaders who are higher in intellectual humility are also higher in Emotional Intelligence, which helps them to avoid assuming that what they think they know or believe is 100% accurate in every aspect. That validates my own observations that those with high EQ are more likely to exhibit intellectual humility as compared with those who have low-to-no EQ.