research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo. - Adam Grant

Indeed, Cialdini finds that people donate more money to charity when the phrase “even a penny will help” is added to a request.

After all, the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.

Arrogance is ignorance plus conviction,” blogger Tim Urban explains. “While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.