Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says This Is the No. 1 Difference Between People With Average Careers and Super Successful Ones

“The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking,” Jeff Bezos

Bezos has spoken repeatedly about how one of the qualities he looks for most in employees and collaborators is “intellectual humility.” He wants people who know they don’t know it all and, no matter how senior or celebrated, are open to new ideas and information, even if that knowledge might challenge their current understanding of the world.