Dr. Paul Conti

I'm like, no, you're great at it, right?

It's not arrogant to say that one really has skills, talents, abilities that we have.

So that's false humility, which people will do sometimes sometimes.

in order to lessen themselves compared to someone else, right?

And it may be someone else who doesn't feel good about themselves and doesn't want that person to feel good about themselves.

Whatever the reason may be, selling ourselves short isn't humility, right?

And yes, humility can be the opposite of arrogance, but that's not what we're talking about in the vast majority of people.

It is not that.

It's that we often don't have the humility to let ourselves be human and to say, look, I make mistakes or I really messed that thing up, but I've got to pick myself up and I've got to, instead of beating up on myself about it, I've got to say, okay, I'm human.

I make mistakes, right?

And I'm going to get back to the game.

I'm going to get back and I'm going to do a better job.

One might think, well, how is that humility?

But it's the humility to let ourselves be human and to say, you know, I'm human too.

I make mistakes.

I'm struggling in a world that is often very, very difficult to navigate.

I have a right to move forward instead of beating up on myself or hiding myself away because there are things about my life that I don't feel great about or that didn't go the way that I wanted them to.

So it's humility that, along with empowerment...

lets us be in the world in a real way because we're letting ourselves be human, but we're being empowered humans.

Or even recognized as something people could do.