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Is it better for someone to not know their worth or to be full of themselves?
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No, they aren't.
Incidentally, your answer suggests arrogance and a belief in your superiority, not humility.
Let me explain...
Genuine humility is not making yourself out to be more OR LESS than how you are created. You cite your extreme "modesty" as a sign you are humble.
I would suggest the most humble person I've seen would be Sir Richard Branson. He doesn't say he's less than he really is, but he doesn't puff himself up either. All he does is say what he's trying to do. He's the first to acknowledge his mistakes but he's able to simply be himself.
Another example is Robert Downey Jr. He freely admits his mistakes and doesn't puff himself up in interviews as any more than a guy who was given a chance to mend his life.
Yet another would be Ryan Reynolds. He just strives to be the best man he can, not making more of himself than he is while not making himself out as less either.
Saying "look how modest I am" isn't being humble. It's pride. Pride is something that promotes arrogance. You'll say it, then probably get pissed at the English guy who points out that making the statement so blatantly is arrogance not humility.
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To consider yourself too be a humble person, requires a single perspective filter that involves a fixed scale of evaluation of people's self worth, based on rigid presumptive association of morality, social status, or percieved intellectual capacity and potential.
I have never been able too judge any lifeform in terms of being less or more important, or of greater or lessor social significance or importance in the greater (Greater, being the long view, on a cosmic scale of variable interpretation and bias) scheme (Scheme referring to a baseline perspective analysis of the resulting consequences to cause and effect relationship theory and application in determining a universally accepted perception and definitive definition describing our collective understanding of the world around us based on an equal playing field of social conventional collective reasoning 🤯) of things, in accordance with my own uninformed prejudices and opinions.
In other words, you never know what it is like to be someone else, until you have walked a light-year in thier shoes, with only Thier experiences and psychological makeup neurological matrix as a point of reference to draw upon.
In short, it is impossible for me to feel humble, if an attitude of superiority over other's, is an alian concept to me.
My own self-worth, was only truly bin question, when those around me tried to make me into something I am not, and my very survival, forced me too take ownership of that perception of self, and defy those attempts at using me for personal gain and shared xenophobic hatred and angst, and fight back with every ounce of self respect and self determination I am entitled to, enforcing my assertion that I am equal too anybody where it counts, with superior intent, based on life affirming principals, and my continued motivation too "TREAT OTHERS, AS I WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TOO TREAT ME."
Humility means not to be too proud of oneself.
It isn't strictly necessary by that definition, but personally I think it's best if humility is accompanied by self-awareness.
Knowing your skill allows you to know your limits. This allows you to know when you're being humble (not speaking above your limits) but also avoids selling yourself short (possibly misrepresenting your skills).
If someone doesn't know their worth or skill, how can they know if they're being humble? They're just either self-depracating at that point, or at worst unintentionally misrepresenting themselves.
What is anyone’s worth? We are all worth so much more than any of us give ourselves credit for… and whilst I think you have to believe in yourself to be able to be humble. It means you don’t see yourself as better. Just that you are who you are and therefore able to be humble as you don’t see what you have or are as better than anyone!
But saying that…. People who get told they are humble we’re probably acting a way to get that response.
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You are not humble if you need to say it yourself to remind others. Most likely you are an asshole who thinks he's something he's not.
Also "knowing worth" has little to do with humbleness. You either have a million or family connections - or you don't. Your being "humble" is immaterial.
Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm immensely humble. And I mean "worth" in a more versatile way that specifies something that's valued.
I used to work with a guy who was arguably the biggest blowhard in my region of the country, if not the world.
He also proclaimed that he as was as humble as the day was long.
He provided endless entertainment for all those who encountered him, and who knew he was so full of caca that the brown stuff on top of his head wasn't hair, it was tendrils of excrement extruding from his watermelon sized noggin.
In the opinion of most people who encounter him, he is a borderline idiot.
I myself give him a slight bit more credit than that.
A slight bit more credit.
That being said, if someone doesn't know their own worth, yet they are truly humble, they're humble.
Would increased awareness of their own worth diminish their humility?
Not if they were truly humble to start with.
People describe me as humble because I am not a show off. But the reason for not showing off even though I have some achievements in life it’s because I have low self esteem. I do not think that I deserve those achievements and I prolly gotten them due to chance.
So yes, in a way I’m humble in other people’s eyes because I do not know my own worth.
No they have no idea of their worth how can they be humble? Sorry I hate answering a question with a question lol
Okay good. Thought I was crazy. I see this all of the time in person. Someone will be naive & incompetent & someone will say they're humble.
😂🤔 lets hope not
A person unaware of their worth is nothing but a fool waiting to be destroyed by the cruel side of the world. Only a powerful person can forgive someone and be perceived as humble, the weak on the other hand will be considered lucky enough that the situation didn't escalate.
A person is humble if they are humble, weather or not one knows they are humble does not determine if they truly are or not. I know I am humble but I do not make a point of putting it out there, I just am and thats fine. I suppose a truly humble person does not look for acknowledgement but merely is content in knowing themselves.
It depends on how you determine "worth", and maybe "value"?
Do you agree with the Social Norms, or do you have the mental and emotional foresight, to know that you are unique, and of VALUE, regardless of social standards and norms.
Worth comes from acts, I think, and how you do things that matter, mostly, to you, but maybe also, to society.
a person can be humble and either know or not know their own worth because its not just about how you view yourself its how you view the people around you and if you have low self worth but will help someone who is going through a hard time over something less than what you may have been through and having empathy for others is enough to be considered humble
Humble person doesn't care to know his or her worth.
But if they don't care to know what their worth is, then how can they make sure they're modest about it?
Lets say you are a hot woman.
Most guys want you.
You think of yourself as a chill casual woman, with hobbies and dreams and hopefully some day will try to make your partner happy.
That's humble, not a woman who first goes around and checks her value, or how guys hit on her or slide in her dms.
And be like oh i'm a 9 but i'm going to call myself 5, so i sound humble.
A real humble woman would feel herself like an average to a pretty woman, just there somewhere
Humble is almost like ignorance but also not caring about that.
People can act or choose or present themselves to be more humble.
A good example of a real humble person is the twitch streaming wood carver Broxh.
In my opinion, it would just be naive. 🤔 And to me, it wouldn't have as much merit as if the person was knowledgeable but chose to be a certain way because they could understand it's the better choice to make.
When I think of humble people I think of people who do have an impact or an important role or status, but doesn't act that way and treats others the same, some down to earth person. They're aware of what they can do and have accomplished, but don't see themselves as more important as other people, he doesn't look down on them. No idea why it has to be a He in this case xD
The truth is the one who doesn't attach any value to his life is the happiest.
Once you put a value then you start to compare which creates whole lot of other nonsensense.
Do good and forget.
Does a rose know that it's a rose still it gives the fragnance 🌹.
Be a rose my friend.😎
i think humility doesn't come from a sense of value. it comes from a sense of relativity. the fact that no matter how good you are, there's always someone better. and no matter how bad you are, there's always someone that's worse. you don't need to know your place on the spectrum to understand this :D
Disagree.
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And he was a paragon of humility
A truly humble person would never advertise and brag about his humility in a public post... That's called arrogance, not self-knowledge
Justike u're not brave if u do something without knowing there were consequences.
true that!
There's a slight difference between humbleness and underestimation. Humbleness is based on knowing your worth on a given matter but accepting it and being open about it. Underestimation is not humbleness.
No being humble is not about knowing your worth it's the opposite of bragging. You simply acting as whatever skill set you have doesn't make you special.
No. A truly humble person knows their worth but doesn't use that as leverage.
Humans are created equal, so if you treat people equal and they don't treat you equal is wrong. So one should not be arrogant to think others are less than them, and also not take credit for that.
That's interesting. For those of us who aren't worth much, if we truly realized that, would we still technically even be able to be humble? Because maybe we were only humble when we THOUGHT we were something special but we still acted meek.
Humility is more about stepping back and putting others before yourself. Its an attitude of the heart. If you find yourself boasting or helping others to get something out of it its not humility anymore
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