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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash
 

 

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Genuine humility

Humility is not an exercise in demoting yourself. It is a necessary precursor to excellence in every area of endeavor.

If you think of your viewpoint as perfect, you cut yourself off from any meaningful improvement. When you assume you know it all, you render yourself unable to learn.

Even the most meager acknowledgement of reality, when sincere, is a humbling experience. If you wish to successfully navigate the vastness and complexity of existence, humility is essential, not optional.

It is also liberating. Humility frees you to bestow time, attention and great effort on meaningful achievement and experience for all.

When you choose not to be imprisoned by self importance, there’s so much more you can learn, and do, and be. Humility removes layer upon layer of constraints, bringing stronger connections and improved effectiveness.

Value yourself, respect yourself, think highly of yourself, but don’t let your opinion of yourself block out all else. Genuine humility is always called for, and always the best choice for everyone involved.

— Ralph Marston

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