Humility - Uncomfortable words we’d rather not hear #3

Humility?

Wouldn’t it be great if we could get through life – or at least our work day – without any unpleasantries?? Alas, we all know that won’t happen.? Not only do we have to deal with difficult situations and trying people, but even our language contains words that make us uncomfortable and anxious.

In this series of posts, I’m going to identify five uncomfortable words that we would rather not hear, and propose a solution to dealing with them.

In the first post, I focused on ‘personal responsibility.’ And, in the second, ‘discipline.’ ?Here’s the third: Humility.

Intellectually.

We have no problem with this word, in an intellectual way.? We understand that it refers to the state of being humble and that the Merriam –Webster definition of humble is “a spirit of deference or submission; not haughty, not arrogant or assertive.”

The problem is not our intellectual understanding of the idea, the problem raises its head in the personal application — when we think of it as applying to us.? It’s one thing to talk about the idea at arms length, and it’s quite another to apply it to ourselves. That’s when it gets uncomfortable.

Of course, our culture looks down on humility and humbleness and often glorifies just the opposite... CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE