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Intellectual humility

A brief overview of intellectual humility, by Tenelle Porter of UC Davis, with classroom resources. Pair this introductory reading with the activities below to consider how ready you are to consider ideas that contradict your own established beliefs as you seek to make well-informed and ethical changes within a community (PI Practice M2).

   Article

   10 minutes

   By: Character Lab

   Leader-prep | Lifelong learners


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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