Title: Humility | SkillsYouNeed
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Humility
What is Humility?
In other words, humility is not being a ‘doormat’, and allowing people to walk all over you.
Why does humility matter?
What about the fit between humility and self-esteem?
Developing Humility
To try to cultivate humility, you may want to try one or more of these activities:
Further Reading from Skills You Need
The Skills You Need Guide to Life: Living Well, Living Ethically
A final thought
Humility may sound old-fashioned, but that does not mean that a little humbleness is not as important now as ever.

Content: Being humble, however, does not mean having a poor opinion of yourself, but rather accepting yourself and your many good qualities, as well as your limitations, recognising that others also have good qualities and are equally valuable. Developing Humility
For many of us, humility is one of the hardest traits to develop, because it has to start from a recognition that you are not always right, and that you do not have all the answers. It also requires an acceptance of yourself which many of us find challenging. It is relatively easy to be humble when you are at the bottom of the tree, as it were: new in a job, or very junior. The more senior you get, however, the more likely you are to have people looking to you for answers, and the more you find yourself believing that you can help. If you are not careful, you can reach senior positions—just the moment at which you most need humility—believing that you are more or less infallible. To try to cultivate humility, you may want to try one or more of these activities: Spend time listening to others
A key quality of humbleness is to value others and enable them to be heard. Spending time listening to others, and drawing out their feelings and values, enabling them to express themselves, is a very powerful way to start to understand this.