Humility is a key to intelligence

Alex Homozi believes intelligence is a rate of learning. I agree with him. To him learning is when you have the same conditions but choose a different behaviour. 

If you want to be smarter the key is to work out how you can change your behaviour faster.

As we age, we seem to lose our willingness to be wrong and change our behaviour.

When we are given leadership roles we can fall into a trap of believing we need to know all the answers to maintain credibility. I've been guilty of this big time.

This belief stops us from seeking and genuinely listening to feedback, a key ingredient of learning.

Creating a learning culture for yourself and your team is a simple way to become smarter at what you do.

Adam Grant's research has found if you replace arrogance with humility it provides a reflective lens that helps us see our weaknesses clearly and take action to learn and improve.

Humility, then, is a key to intelligence.