The Half-Second Before Certainty | Eva Korneeva | TEDxSergeli Specialized School

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What if the smartest people aren't the ones who know the most — but the ones who pause the longest before deciding they're right? Eva Korneeva unpacks the half-second between hearing something confident and deciding it's true, and why our education systems — and now, AI — have quietly trained us to skip right past it. Drawing from a personal moment of defensiveness she almost missed, she makes the case that real intellectual humility isn't about having no convictions — it's about knowing the difference between defending a belief and testing one. Eva Korneeva is a youth leader, entrepreneur, and founder based between Russia and Georgia. She founded SÖZ, an initiative for opportunities that has reached 35+ students across four countries. Eva has organized educational, cultural, and civic initiatives for young people, including the first Model United Nations conference in Shakhty city. Her international experience includes the Nazarbayev University Summer Educational Program, Harvard Coll

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