Does humility imply that a person should underrate his own achievements or successes? How does it help anyway?

Answer 1

humility is different that self respect and self worth where the person is content with himself. humility indicates that the person acknowledges circumstances, oppurtunity that contributed to his/ her success.

humility helps against complacence, arrogance which destroys goodwill and the person does not have a sense of entitlement.

Answer 2

I would not say that humility requires someone to continuously under-estimate their own accomplishments, although this may seem to be the case sometimes. I would instead suggest that is the act or art of NOT over-estimating ones own accomplishments. What I mean is firstly that the person who is humble will take into account those around them when formulating their words.

For example, would it be not being humble to brag about your accomplishments around people who did the same of their own, no as these people also brag shamelessly of their accomplishments they would be likely to take no notice of this. However if you where to do the same to someone who has tried and failed many times then it may seem as if you are taunting them. In effect humility is a way to be polite. As one cannot know the histories of all people all the time it is good not to be overtly proud and pompous as it may inadvertently offend people.

Secondly, humility as the art of not over-estimating ones accomplishments is a good tool to prevent one from becoming too full of oneself.

For example, a person who is not humble would realise that they had accomplished a task (say finish high school for an example of an experience that most share) and get full of themselves because they passed (if they did). While a humble person would also realise that millions of other people had also passed and that millions more would continue to pass and so would place the experience in its appropriate place.

Many have the perception that being humble means that one is constantly being demure and non-assertive. This is however not the truth. A truly humble person would be assertive and even aggressive, but only when it was called for. Humility, true humility, does not include demure, submissive or passive behaviour but instead includes caring, conscience and the conspicuous lack of "I am better than everyone else" pride.

I hope that I have explained my position well enough.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Humility is not under rating your achievements. Humility is thinking and speaking the truth about yourself in a knowledgeable way.

For example, I worked very hard to graduate from RN school and to know enough to pass the RN State Board exam. However, I could not have achieved this unless their were teachers in that college who had skills at teaching and at being a RN. No one achieves anything in a vacuum.

Also remembering that that my achievement is less than that of parents who raise their children to become responsible, happy adults.. A person who is paralyzed from the waist down, is making an extreme achievement just by living.

None of us know what other people have to overcome. Humility is realising that whatever we achieved, other people may have achived bigger and better achievements.

Humility is an important factor in human relationships. If we are consistantly bragging about our succeses, other people will soon get tired of this and put us out of their lives (no friends/ gf's or spouse)

If someone is trying to get closer to God, humility is important; we will not advance spiritually without it. Compared to God, we are nothing, we can do nothing without His Grace.

All of this is not to say that we should not be proud of our achievements and successes. Humility is putting those achievements in their proper perspective. We can tell other people about our successes, but only once and not in a bragging way. We can judge another person's behavior but not the person themselves.

What I mean is that it is a big error to think that if we had been born into some other person's; body, family, neighborhood, school system, etc; that we would be better at living that persons life than they are.

Answer 4

Big Giant NO to question 1.
False Humility is a form of Pride.

Humility means being more concerned about DOING the right thing or the great thing, than being known for it.

Humility is substance over style. It is believing that it's far more important to be WORTHY of praise, than to actually BE praised.

How does Humility help?

Let's put it this way.

If politicians decided to stop BSing the public on what great jobs they were doing, and just concentrated on DOING a great jobs…

….would the quality of government improve?

Answer 5

No not to underrate your achievements and successes but to keep you grounded which is so hard to do to be humble and not become a spoiled, selfish Diva........there was once this person I valued but the more I heard about their spoiled and selfish ways i was so upset the image that they portrayed to the world in their stardom was different then the person that would say I like the finer things in life...........Humility is something that you should always have and not lie and be a fake of who you really are a sinner in my eyes of the worse kind :)))

Answer 6

Only the strong can truly be humble. Humility is the most important quality needed to achieve anything in life. It means you truly evaluate the quality of the other, you identify with the reality of the other and you offer your capacity to allow the progress of the other, if wished so.

Humility also allows you to break with your own habits of perception, opens your mind to other ways of looking at what you might have achieved or how you value achievement and yourself.

Answer 7

It means that there is no reason for bragging or becoming arrogant since arrogance precedes downfall.
Success attracts envy and negative energy along with it. By becoming arrogant due to achievements one might also become reckless about the feelings and thoughts of others. Humility also indicates that success is not taken for granted but put to a good use to the benefit others as well.

Answer 8

I would say humility is appreciating life, accomplishments but also being aware of ones frailties. Honoring God and others and being compassionate towards others especially those who have less or are weak. Being able to appreciate those who have more without being jealous or envious.

If you acknowledge that you have weakness you will be compassionate and sympathetic towards other because you know it could have been you if you thought that way and were under the same circumstances.

I believe that major thing that makes us different as human being is the way we think

Answer 9

the technical definition of humility implies that one should underrate his/her own achievements/successes (humility=a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness.) it is an important characteristic for everyone in a group living together to have because it increases feelings of mutual togetherness which is important to the success of the group and therefore ultimately the success of the individual. of course this has much more of an anthropological context from back in the times when people reallly had to stick together and rely on the success of each other to survive. in hunter gatherer groups this is a prized notion because they know that any little upset to the balance of their society could bring ruin to them all. being humble lessens feelings of jealousy and thus hatred among a group of people as well creating a more amiable atmosphere for everyone to reside in. modern contexts for this concept occur in family households, workplaces, schools...ect...anywhere a group of people gets together. i think it is important to value your own success but to do so internally and not make your feelings known to the external world. people who do this often have the easier time getting through life and dealing with other people day to day because inside they are happy people knowing what they've achieved yet they don't wave it in front of everyone else in a manner which basically says, 'hey look, i did this so i'm better than you!' thus causing feelings of resentment in others who may be jealous of success. the world would be a hell of a lot better place if people took this notion to heart and practiced it.

Answer 10

i think that would depend on the person and the situation.some ppl can decide that they should tone down their actions, and sum others feel more determined. These people are usually stubborn and proud/ or just really positive. While others may not have good self-esteem or confidences about their abilities. But even stubborn , prideful peoplez can be brought down by humility. Thats where friendz n familyz come in.

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