You could have two potential dating partners, both of whom would be good choices. However, by definition, you will be happier with one. In business, you may have two successful people to choose from when hiring. One will also be better. There is no way to know which! Regardless, in all of these scenarios, the people should all be confident. I point this out because confidence has more to do with adequate outcomes than optimal outcomes. When you hire an attorney, you want one who will get you acquitted or negotiate the best contract.
Two attorneys may both be capable of accomplishing your goals, but one will do it for less money. Most people focus on the outcome, not the cost. As a result, both attorneys will rightly be confident, although one would be better for the situation. To bring all of this together, my point is that confidence is something you can hold, even if someone else may be better.
Humility is about understanding that your ability does not make you better, or worse, than anyone else.
The prince is not better than a pauper or vice versa. The pauper is certainly confident in his panhandling skills, while the prince may confidently rate fine foods and wine. To switch places, neither would be confident. And herein lies the rub. We only tend to recognize these traits when things do not go as planned. When a person consistently handles a situation well, they tend to be confident. However, when the 95 per cent survival rate doctor loses a patient as he does 1 in 20 times , we can assume he entered those operations with the same confidence as usual.
Obviously, only in that five per cent of cases was he overconfident. In the other 95 per cent of cases, he was appropriately confident.
Similarly, we only tend to recognize humility where we see it out of place. When you see photos of the US president reading to children in school, we say he is humble. When we see a movie star serving soup at a soup kitchen, we say she is humble.
Humility is typically only recognized when others see someone as their better, while that person sees only equality. First, know that being confident and humble means two things — one, you believe that you deserve to succeed, and two, no one has to lose for you to win. To show up confidently and humble, one must trust in their own abilities and steer away from comparing themselves against others.
In truth, you celebrate them and their wins just as you would celebrate yourself. There is a big misconception that you have to be the loudest and the boldest person in the room to showcase your confidence.
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Because they believe that what they have to say is more valuable than listening to you. In other words, they're placing their self-interest first. Humble people, however, actively listen to others before summarizing the conversation. Speaking of which…. They glean knowledge from the experiences of others and crave more opportunities to learn. They know that to bridge the gap between unwillingness and willingness there must be action; they summon the courage to face difficulty as they graciously accept to sacrifice themselves.
Humble people don't believe that one person's "win" necessarily mean another person's "loss. Humble people put others at the forefront of their thoughts. Humble people brag about others, while the prideful people brag about themselves.
Humble people are not only receptive to constructive criticism but actively seek it because they know that feedback is a pathway to improvement. No one does. Humble people acknowledge what they do and do not know and enlist help for the latter. Humility displays a willingness to learn and become better--two things that everybody should cultivate.
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