Some this is good advice for just clear thinking.
2 stand out
3. Real experts demonstrate intellectual honesty.
They can put their own expertise in perspective – in terms of its importance in the world, and the quality of the evidence supporting their points of view. Crucially, real experts aren’t afraid of evidence that contradicts their beliefs or their work. They recognize that the role of experts is to engage in debate, not to suppress it. Real experts can be skeptical about not only others’ ideas, but also about their own. Conversely, fake experts’ openness to contradictory ideas resembles that of my 2nd grader, who’s been known to cover his ears and sing “lalalalala!” for minutes on end while his older brother tries to tell him something he doesn’t want to hear.
4. Real experts show intellectual curiosity.
They keep themselves learning. Fake experts are like intellectual slumlords: They keep renting the same worn-out ideas, making virtually no improvements to those ideas over time. But real experts know that in order to stay sharp, they need to keep learning. That retired professor who pays his own way to attend conferences in his field, uncertain of any financial benefit from attending? He’s doing so because he can’t help it—he simply has to keep up with the latest developments in his field.
Lifelong learning,
and being open to editing or changing positions and correction because of discovery of new and unknown information is honest.
It's not only fake experts who've "been known to cover his ears and sing “lalalalala!” for minutes on end while his older brother tries to tell him something he doesn’t want to hear."
Last edited by revelarts; 11-24-2014 at 07:32 AM.
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
Live as free people, yet without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but live at all times as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16