Intellectual Humility in a Polarized World
(Blinding moral clarify doesn’t seem to be working, anyway)
Intellectual Humility in a Polarized World
At a time when complex technology of all sorts is exploding and voluminous information about the world is at our literal fingertips, one commodity in oddly short supply is intellectual humility. And in these polarized times, we’ve become shockingly convinced that somehow our political allies can decipher reality with utter clarity and it’s only our ideological foes who are thoroughly, utterly and so very dangerously WRONG.
We’ll be exploring the importance of knowing you might be wrong (gasp! yes, even you), why this is so important, and what we can do about it to help build human connections and bridge our divides. Learn more about our special guest moral psychologist Dr. Kurt Gray’s work by clicking “read more.”
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Kurt says our brains are designed to notice patterns and make generalizations to keep us safe, not so much to find truth with accuracy, and this design quirk leads to us overgeneralizing what we think we know in unproductive ways. He brings a strong argument that this describes you too, sorry (you’ll actually be as entertained as you can be when you’re learning just how deluded you are). Together we’ll imagine what we might achieve together if we remember and restore intellectual humility to our politics, to our planet—and because we’re furiously figuring out “How We Get Our Groove Back”—to our lives.
Catering by Living Cafe
- Chicken Marbella
- Vegetarian option: Cauliflower Marbella
- Mashed red potatoes
- Broccoli
- Yeast rolls
- Iced tea, lemonade, coffee
- For dessert: Peanut butter brownies + Chewy orange bars
