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: For example, humble people handle stress more effectively and report higher levels of physical and mental well-being. They also show greater generosity, helpfulness, and gratitude —all things that can only serve to draw us closer to others. Three tips for cultivating humility
Given what scientists have discovered about humility, it’s evident that cultivating this quality is not for the faint-hearted, nor does it appear overnight. Yet it would seem that one of the great rewards of humility is an inner freedom from having to protect those parts that we try to hide from ourselves and others. In other words, we develop a quiet, understanding, and compassionate heart. Here are some scientifically-based ways to start. 1. Embrace your humanness
For many, when we fail at something that is important to us—a job or a relationship, for example—our self-esteem plummets because we tied our self-worth to those things. All of a sudden, we become bad or unworthy people, and it can be a long road to recovery. Not so for people with humility.