Many Americans worry about the political divide tearing our country apart. A large percentage are unwilling to engage with people who have opposing political views, and that’s creating more animosity.

Do you ever find yourself mulling over your beliefs and opinions, thinking about why and how you came to hold a certain conviction, perhaps even questioning whether you might be wrong? Or maybe you ...

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The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

In my last post, I discussed the principle of intellectual charity as an essential element of constructive political conversations. As a companion to the principle of charity, we also need to ...

Better health care for patients begins with humility – a term not often associated with medicine. I witnessed displays of humility firsthand eight years ago, the night my son was born, in the way the ...

While a dominant personality can help you climb the corporate ladder, new research shows there is also a “humble route” to career advancement. That’s good news for leaders who naturally shy away from ...

In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...

During Jeff Bezos’s tenure as CEO of Amazon, what was the No. 1 quality he looked for when hiring people? Hard work and past accomplishments certainly mattered. But when the then-Amazon boss spoke at ...