When access to all the information in the world is constantly sitting in your pocket, there’s something you might not know.
You might not know how to deal with not knowing things. Uncertainty. Ambiguity. Liminal space.
I wonder if that’s why sometimes it feels like progress in information technology has led to a regress of basic humanity. Because there will always be the unknown.
To me, this makes intellectual humility one of the most attractive things to see in a person.
Someone who knows they see through the lenses of their own culture, upbringing, and experiences.
Someone who knows that their ideas and the beliefs of others have room to expand, and will likely evolve over years.
Someone who isn’t threatened by different ideas or perspectives and prioritizes everyone’s humanity above the need to be right.
Do things that scare you. Order the least familiar thing on the menu. Take a chance on a random new class. Whatever it looks like for you, cultivate your relationship with the unknown. Take it on dates. Sharpen that intellectual humility.