Shane Snow

Shane Snow Shane Snow is an award-winning entrepreneur, explorer, and journalist. His writing has appeared in GQ, Fast Company, Wired, and The New Yorker—and he is a world-renowned keynote speaker on innovation and human behavior.

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The Art Of Intellectual Humility: The Podcast Series

Intellectual humility is the wisdom of knowing we don’t know everything. Picture in your mind someone who you think of as "wise." Who's face do you see?

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intellectual humility

The Intellectual Humility Test: A Self-Assessment

How open minded are you? What dimensions of Intellectual Humility are strengths for you, and where are your weaknesses? The self- assessment below...

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productive conflict

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The Importance Of Being Charitable (Especially When Approaching Conflict)

explorations > Teamwork > Trust I once tuned in to a virtual conference talk that left me deeply unsettled. But the lesson we can...

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what reading level should i write at

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What Reading Level Should You Write At?

Some time ago, a friend and I were talking about becoming better writers by looking at the “reading levels” of our work. Scholars have formulas for...

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strategic decision making

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How To Use Virtues & Principles For Strategic Decision-Making

AFEW YEARS AGO I found myself in a rather dark place. The bottom had dropped out from under me in several areas of my life. It started...

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the meaning of brainstorming

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Brainstorming better (by Not Brainstorming)

This treatise on productive brainstorming—or rather, alternatives to it—is based on dozens of scientific studies and voluminous...

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intellectual dishonesty

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Intellectual Dishonesty

The meaning of intellectual dishonesty and how to curb it Discourse and debate are more effective in both democracy and business when we learn...

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what is intellectual humility

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What is Intellectual Humility? How It Works And How To Develop It

Intellectual Humility: A Timeless Virtue Intellectual Humility is one of the most exciting fields of study in current psychology and philosophy....

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Lateral Thinking

How To Use Lateral Thinking To Form Innovative Hypotheses

Part 5 of my Lateral Thinking explainer series This is about doing what most people jump straight to in Step 1 of a typical problem-solving process:...

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