MCRD San Diego Library Professional Book Club

Schedule

Thu Nov 06 2025 at 11:00 am to 11:30 am

UTC-08:00

Location

MCRD San Diego Library | San Diego, CA

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Virtual discussion of Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age by Edward D. Hess & Katherine Ludwig.
About this Event

November’s featured book from the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program is a book, Humility Is the New Smart by Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig. Library staff will lead an in-depth discussion, plus share tips on how to write high-quality reports of your professional reading.


The virtual event is hosted on MS Teams at 11:00am on November 6th, 2025. Registration is required for the virtual event.

An in-person discussion will take place on the same date at 16:30 at the MCRD Library. Base access is required for the in-person event.


About the Book:


In Humility is the New Smart, Hess and Ludwig offer us a game plan to stay relevant in the upcoming Smart Machine Age. We need to excel at critical, creative, and innovative thinking and at genuinely engaging with others—things machines can’t do well. The key is to change our definition of what it means to be smart. Hess and Ludwig call it being NewSmart. In this extraordinarily timely book, they offer detailed guidance for developing NewSmart attitudes and four critical behaviors that will help us adapt to the new reality.


The crucial mindset underlying NewSmart is humility—not self-effacement but an accurate self-appraisal: acknowledging you can’t have all the answers, remaining open to new ideas, and committing yourself to lifelong learning. Drawing on extensive multidisciplinary research, Hess and Ludwig emphasize that the key to success in this new era is not to be more like the machines but to excel at the best of what makes us human.

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MCRD San Diego Library, 3800 Chosin Avenue, San Diego, United States

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