Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1763.

One of my favorite character traits in people who I really admire is their ability to practice

intellectual humility. And what intellectual, intellectual humility is simply,

what it is simply is the ability to know that

you are a work in progress. No matter how much experience you have, how much knowledge you have,

you still know that there's something to learn from other people. Now, what we also fall into

the trap of is just taking what quote unquote experts say is face value just because they have a

PhD behind their name just because because they have this experience or that experience

have done this thing done that thing we will just take whatever words that they say and we'll

take it as gospel truth and my invitation to you is to pause. And instead of just quickly

assuming someone is right because of who they are, what they've done or what books they've

written, is to pause and ask yourself under what conditions is this true? Maybe even ask

yourself under what conditions is this not true? Where can this person be wrong?

Because a lot of the information that people share, including myself, is not universal.

There are nuances. There are contextual differences. There are situations and variables that

are not applied to every single person. So just because this superstar athlete,

just because this famous movie star, even a scientist suggests doing something that's going to

work for you, pause and ask yourself under what conditions is this true. Does this really work for

me? And the answer might be no.

It might be no. And so today's invitation is to practice intellectual humility by not just

jumping on the bandwagon of what everybody says. It's pausing and seeing what works best for you.

Have a great day and we'll do it again tomorrow.

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