"Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness."
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The root of all growth, learning, and kindness, humility is the absence of entitlement.
Humility annihilates ignorance and cultivates grace at the same time.
One may think of oneself as an authority on whatever knowledge has been attained over the years (and assume that our brains are perfect), but one must not fall in the Dunning-Kruger Effect where one’s own knowledge is considered superior and versatile, making them blind towards their own ignoranc...
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