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All the down and the middle of the parties and the get. Welcome to the You Are Not So

Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode

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I'm going to than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the

universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.

This is the You're Not So Smart Podcast. I am David McCraneaney, and that was the late, great astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan talking about intellectual humility.

And if you've been listening to this show for a while, you are well aware of the fact that the concept of intellectual humility and our lack thereof,

the scientific study of intellectual humility and our lack thereof, is one of the main themes of the show.

So in this episode, after I tell you some really neat things about intellectual humility,

I will play you an episode of another

podcast called How to Be a Better Human, in which a psychologist who studies intellectual

humility named Teneal Porter tells comedian Chris Duffy all about her latest research into

how to conduct research into intellectual humility.

But before I hit play on all that, I'd like to take a moment to talk about this fascinating and often misunderstood term.

You just heard from Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan.

Here's the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman also talking about intellectual humility.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting

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