“I don’t know!”
“I was wrong!”
These phrases are rare gems that remain hidden in an overconfident world: today, admitting mistakes is mainly considered as impotence and failure.
As proof, common synonyms for the word ‘humility’ are ‘abasement’ or ‘submissiveness’ – hardly desirable traits. But our tendency to reason and speak in order to be right or to condemn, rather than to deeply understand, leads us to blindly isolate ourselves in a thinking system held together with bias and arrogance.
However, as change is accelerating – whether at social, medical, political or technological levels – our ability to reflect and demonstrate intellectual humility becomes vital.