Understanding the Value of Humility
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ScribdTranslationsHumility is a moral virtue contrary to pride, which is possessed by human beings.
recognize your skills, qualities, and abilities, and make use of them to act for the good
of others, without saying it. Humility allows a person to be trustworthy,
flexible and adaptable, to the extent that one becomes humble, they gain greatness in
the hearts of other people.
Humility is a human quality or characteristic that is attributed to every person.
that one considers oneself a small and insignificant being in the face of the transcendent of his
existence or to God according to whether it is spoken in theological terms. A humble person
generally should be modest and live without greater aspirations: someone who does not think
that he or she is better or more important than others. The concept of humility in various
conceptions is often much more accurate and extensive. Humility should not be
confused with humiliation, which is the act of making someone experience it in another or in
one embarrassed feeling, and that is something completely different.
For Christianity, the humblest person was Jesus, who was the richest of them all.
he became poor and was born in a manger and being the most important he died on a cross
(Filipenses 2:6-8), (Mateo 11:29).
From the perspective of spiritual evolution, humility is a virtue of realism,
Well, it consists of being aware of our limitations and shortcomings and acting accordingly.
agreement with such consciousness. More precisely, humility is the wisdom of what
We are. That is to say, it is the wisdom of accepting our real evolutionary level.
Humility in people is considered to be any quality that reveals the
complete concept of what a human being is.
You don't always win, but you don't always lose either. One must practice balance and
Modesty. Success brings joy, but it doesn't have to translate into arrogance.
And defeats can sometimes be frustrating, but that doesn't mean we should give up.
driven by anger. Both situations teach us the value of humility: to respect the
adversary and value our effort and that of the other.
THEY GIVE VALUE TO HARD WORK
Humble people are mentally prepared that most situations in life,
unless one is part of a privileged minority, they require hard work to
to live with dignity and help others do so as well.
For this reason, they highly value the importance of effort and hard work, and from
then they do not mock those who choose to sacrifice several aspects of their daily life to
to promote ambitious and difficult projects (a complicated university degree, a
very specialized professional trajectory in which many people compete, etc.).
2. THEY FIND NO PLEASURE IN OUTDOING OTHERS
A humble person does not have to completely reject situations in which they
participate in a competition dynamic, such as in competitive exams or in
a project competition to receive a scholarship.
However, it does not experience pleasure in the experience of surpassing someone in something.
person or group, since their self-esteem does not depend on obsessive comparisons
with others.
That is to say, they do not get emotionally involved in the competition itself, but in the development.
the quality product that as a result can help them stand out in a
competition.
They can better tolerate the lack of attention.
Humble people can be both introverted and extroverted, but in
in any case, they are less affected by the experience of not receiving much attention for
part of the others.
This is something relative, given that everyone needs to be recognized by their peers,
but since this type of person does not feel the need to receive validation
a constant third-party involvement, a certain solitude in this regard does not generate for them
so much discomfort.