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Daryl Van Tongeren on how to understand and use the quiet power of an ancient virtue in 'Humble'


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Daryl Van Tongeren has been researching social psychology and the virtue of humility for over ten years. As the first book on humility in the field of psychology, Humble is a milestone in the exploration of the benefits of humility to the individual and to society. This remarkable book shares the foundational research and new ideas about why humility is important, how to nurture it for personal and societal change, and why we need it now more than ever.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs talks to Daryl Van Tongeren about the research into social psychology and the the virtue of humility, how humility can work positively with ambition and achievement and transform our ideas about leadership, and why humility can function as a liberating, empowering and revolutionary force.

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