Intellectual Humility: The Secret to Great Writing

Let curiosity and childlike wonder, rather than expertise, drive your stories

In an internal memo to the writers of my Wise & Well publication, I noted that one of them is enjoying great success “not because she’s an expert on the topics she writes about, but because she has embraced journalistic best practices and worked diligently to learn the craft in the past year, in order to come at every story with eyes wide open, studious…