Intellectual Humility & Talent

Humility can be described as a recognition that although some have amazing talents and skills that differentiates them from others, it does not make them innately “better than” others. Or that less gifted individuals are "less than" human. High Intellectual Humility is evidenced by a consistent and courteous respect for the humanity of others. Professor Mark Leary has been quoted as saying: “If you think about what’s been wrong in Washington for a long time, it’s a whole lot of people who are very intellectually arrogant about the positions they have, on both sides of the aisle. But even in interpersonal relationships, the minor squabbles we have with our friends, lovers and coworkers, are often about relatively trivial things where we are convinced that our view of the world is correct—and their view is wrong.” What is dangerous is a free society (so called) are individuals who not only believe they know what is best for everyone, but are hell-bent on forcing others to believe that. It's how a would-be dictator becomes a "Hitler," and ruins the lives of millions as well as an entire country.