Is Humility a Virtue? Rethinking Ambition and Self-Doubt

Bret WeinsteinFebruary 15, 201822 min47,402 views

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The Danger of Overemphasizing Humility

💡 The speaker expresses concern that the strong positive connotation of humility and negative connotation of arrogance can be detrimental, especially to students.
🎯 Overestimating one's capabilities, while risky, at least leads to discovering one's limits of capacity, whereas underestimating leads to

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HumilityArroganceAmbitionSelf-DoubtSelf-SabotageGoal SettingCapacity AssessmentDialecticSteel ManningRationalismCreativityInnovationWright BrothersNikola TeslaThomas Edison

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