Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong
The author displays the very cognitive blind spots he decries. He says<p>&quot;One reason I’ve been thinking about the virtue of humility recently is because our president, Donald Trump, is one of the least humble people on the planet.<p>It was Trump who said on the night of his nomination, “I alone can fix it,” with the “it” being our entire political system. It was Trump who once said, “I have one of the great memories of all time.&quot;<p>Trump is of course not a humble man.  Is he any different in this regard than his predecessor?<p>“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.” -- Barack Obama (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories&#x2F;1012&#x2F;81895_Page2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories&#x2F;1012&#x2F;81895_Page2.html</a>)<p>&quot;I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.&quot; -- Barack Obama, Primary Election victory speech, Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008.<p>Intellectual humility starts at home.