Title: How Humility Will Make You the Greatest Person Ever
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How Humility Will Make You the Greatest Person Ever
It's so hard to be humble. Here are three tips for taming your ego.
Why is humility good?
Three tips for cultivating humility
1. Embrace your humanness
2. Practice mindfulness and self-compassion
3. Express gratitude
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Vicki Zakrzewski
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Content: This ability alone cultivates an awe-inspiring inner strength, the most powerful example of which is Gandhi, whose Autobiography is a journey of humbling self-dissection. He once famously said, “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” If Gandhi is an example of what a humble leader can accomplish, then society serves to benefit from this kind of governance. Consider what researchers of the “quiet ego” —a construct similar to humility—suggest happens when we gain control of our ego: we become less likely to act aggressively, manipulate others, express dishonesty, and destroy resources. Instead, we take responsibility for and correct our mistakes, listen to others’ ideas, and keep our abilities in humble perspective. Who wouldn’t want that kind of leadership for our country—and the world? But the benefits of humility do not extend to just our leaders. Nascent research suggests that this lovely quality is good for us individually and for our relationships.