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Shoshin (initial heart/mind) is a Japanese Zen Buddhist concept meaning "beginner's mind.

The Dunning–Kruger effect

Openness to experience in the Five Factor Model (OCEAN)

Intellectual humility and openmindedness can become wasteful stupidity and require guardrails against prima facie nonsense and opinions by unqualified individuals.

Political correctness, virtue signaling, in-group adherence, and manipulativeness.

Intellectual servility

Earned dogmatism

Curse of expertise

Illusion of explanatory depth (IOED)

Intellectual Humility (IH)

LITERATURE

Fisher, M. and Keil, F.C. (2016), The Curse of Expertise: When More Knowledge Leads to Miscalibrated Explanatory Insight. Cogn Sci, 40: 1251-1269. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12280

Patrick Lee Plaisance & Martina Piantoni. (2026) Humility: A Foundational Virtue for Digital Life. Journal of Media Ethics 41:1, pages 19-33.

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