Download Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age AudioBook Free
In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing individual labor. It's not just factory jobs - automated technologies are handling people's opportunities, diagnosing illnesses, and studying written documents. If we humans will put up with, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dosage of humility. We have to be humble enough to let go of the idea that "smart" means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest flaws. Smart machines will always be better than we are in those ideas. Instead, we need to cultivate important abilities that smart machines don't possess (yet): considering critically, artistically, and innovatively, and building close relationships with others so we can collaborate effectively. Hess and Ludwig call this being NewSmart. To develop these abilities, we need to practice four specific habits: keeping our egos out of our own way, handling our thoughts and feelings to suppress any biases or defensiveness, listening to others with an wide open mind, and linking with others socially and emotionally. What all these behaviors have in common is, again, humility - keeping away from self-centeredness so we can learn from and use other humans. Hess and Ludwig offer a guide to producing these NewSmart abilities and to creating organizations where these characteristics are inspired and rewarded.
