Why intellectual humility pays

People of a certain vintage would have observed no doubt one major difference between the time they came of age and now — the obsession with looking good that leads many young men and women to make a beeline for gyms and beauty parlours. There’s nothing wrong with this, except that if some of their time and resources were to be also devoted to burnishing the mind, the benefits over a lifetime would perhaps be far greater.  

We humans have a well-documented tendency to overestimate our prowess at different activities. We regard ourselves to be better at driving, cooking, swimming and