How Humility Brings out the Best of Us
both in our personal and professional growth
First, let’s agree that humility is NOT:
1. Feeling worthless
2. Lacking of confidence
Last couple of weeks, one of my C-levels did a farewell to the whole team. I haven’t got the chance to work under his direct leadership, yet I rest assured that he had impacted the whole company in positive way. Everyone was inspired by how humble he is that made him less boss-more a leader and less colleague-more a friend.
By that farewell, I got to grasp that this one word, humility is truly what I need to hold and walk on as an individual at work, at home, at school, at the casual hangouts; anywhere!
Humility Helps Us to be able to Listen
Listening and hearing are two fundamentally different things that many of us often fail to understand. When we are humble, we are ready enough to really comprehend that we are not the center of anything and being ready enough to put aside our ego in listening to anyone regardless their social status or whatsoever.
Many of us are jumping into conclusion without listening first or being defensive on any inputs. Let’s be real; those actually what destroy the trust and respect between teams at work, friends, family; basically in any human-to-human relationships.
Humility Helps Us to Build Better Self-awareness
Only by being humble, we are able to recognize our faults and truly understand that we are not flawless. By deploying humility, we are able reflect upon critics and work on our flaws. Plus, since being humble does not equal to lacking of confidence, it helps us to be able to spot our strengths without being chesty about it.
Humility Helps Us to be a Fast Learner
I happened to ask a group of investor that if they have 10K dollar to invest in an early-stage startup, what they consider the most from that particular startup. They answer was the people; whether they are coach-able or not.
In order to learn, we need to position ourselves that we do not know it all that we may be wrong. By this, we have enough space to gain knowledge.
Humility Helps to Build Better Relationship with The Creator
Only by acknowledging that anything we have and achieve are truly not coming from ourselves and solely crediting it to The One who Created as well as putting efforts to obey what He commands and stay away from what He forbids, we are able to fully take role as His servant.
By far, the most fulfilling and enjoyable experience both in work and life is with people who are good at listening, having self-awareness, and position themselves as a life-long learner.
Start and end with humility.
