Humility and Decisiveness

🧪 Active Investigation Is intellectual humility compatible with decisiveness?

CURRENT POSITION Intellectual humility is compatible with decisiveness when decisiveness is understood as commitment to action under uncertainty rather than certainty of belief.

KEY ASSUMPTIONS Decisions must often be made without complete information Decisiveness is commonly conflated with certainty Beliefs and actions can be governed by different standards

SUPPORTING EVIDENCE Personal reflection on feeling tension between humility and decisiveness and resolving it conceptually

OPEN QUESTIONS How this balance should vary across different domains like ethics, politics, or personal life Whether excessive humility can still undermine timely action in practice How to develop psychological resilience for authorship without certainty over time

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