Humans Are Actually Pretty Bad At Intellectual Humility

To reach your maximum potential you need to be willing to learn and improve, and that necessarily entails admitting you don't already have all the answers.

However, it's a well-established fact in psychology that humans in general are actually pretty bad at intellectual humility. As Duke University psychology professor Mark Leary recently explained on UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center , this makes intellectual humility a powerful advantage in reaching your goals in life.