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Key takeaways from How Do You Know if You’re Actually Humble?

There are ways to figure out how aware you are of your own limitations—and to cultivate intellectual humility.

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Often, we jump to conclusions about other people and their beliefs, even with incomplete information. We tend to judge books by their proverbial covers. This is exactly where an intellectually humble individual will withhold strong judgments, precisely because evidence is limited as long as you haven’t “read” the book.

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