How to Lose Your Intellectual Ego

The Socratic insight for epistemic humility.

Stanley Burnski
The Taoist Online
Published in
4 min readAug 13, 2023

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It’s a universal experience to argue with a party that is too stubborn to see the truth. Perhaps the opposite is more accurate in your life. You might find yourself realizing mid-discussion that you are in the wrong. However, tensions are already too high for you to admit it, or you simply don’t see any reason to give your opponent…

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