Re:In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything
by chantelles on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:50PM
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Confidence based upon comparison to others does not result in modesty. Confidence based upon continual self-work via the search for an aesthetics of existence creates modesty and a necessary humility in order to go a piece of the way with other ways of being in order to sort out what works in each context.
Re:In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything
by yyyk on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:55AM
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Expertise - Because you're more likely to know when you don't know.
Composure - Because you know things will go wrong and that you can't fix everything, you focus less on self-blame.
Collaboration - Because you don't necessarily know best, you don't bully others.
Confidence - Because you know yourself without exaggeration, you can be confident when it's deserved.
It's more really about not having the wrong kind of confidence, but rather the one gained by study and example (the article seems to instead equate 'Confidence' with 'charismatic leadership', but I don't agree that's the best style of leadership for most occasions).
> Humility isn’t a byproduct of heroism, it’s a precondition. Modest people achieve miracles under pressure because they’re far more likely to possess four major qualities that pay dividends in a crisis.
Which are enumerated: Expertise, Composure, Collaboration, Confidence.
Of these, the article discusses Collaboration in terms of humility, but not the other three.
For example, why would a ``modest'' person be ``far more likely to possess'' Confidence (``believing something so unequivocally that it becomes contagious'')?