This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

Once you start looking at the world in terms of teams and the collaborators that had to come together to do anything,

then you kind of see it everywhere.

Your most recent book is basically how a team could come together to create optimal performance.

How does an individual benefit from reading this book?

Well, everything is about teamwork, everything in life, right?

So you don't just need people who think differently, who can push each other,

who can have that great friction.

You also need the ability to change.

So intellectual humility is this virtue.

It's four things.

It's being able to respect someone else's viewpoint.

Not being overconfident intellectually.

It's not being too sure that everything is right.

It's being willing to revise your viewpoint and being able to separate your ego from your intellect.

If you can do those four things, then you're kind of the ideal person to be working with.

If everyone in your group has those things, then you can be almost unstoppable.

I have Shane Snow on the podcast for the third time, but it's been a while since you've been on.

It was over two years ago.

When did smart cuts come out?

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