The Science of Humility (ARTICLES)

When do we say someone is weak? When do we say someone is humble.  You see these two things are different although most people of the contemporary times mistake one from the other.

People are as good as their culture dictates, yes.  You grow up in a culture where the value of humility is given great emphasis and you carry that along with you wherever you go.

But you enter into another kind of culture which seems to shun humility, or, let’s say, interprets the word differently from the way it was interpreted in your own culture.  Humility is not being a subject to another. It speaks more of being considerate.  That’s how I understand it.  And confidence is more of cheerful of one’s individuality, carriage, being able to accept oneself at par with the society.Confidence isn’t pride, and vise-versa.  To totally regard oneself as the person who has the most understanding about certain views and things tells more of pride than confidence.

Sad to say, culture dictates the conflict of understanding between subjectivism and humility, and also between confidence and pride. 

There are cultures, especially ones oriented on monarchy, that regards being a subject as politeness and humility.  This is something very wrong.  Being kind doesn’t mean you must regard yourself more lowly than the other person for no consideration.  Differences in educational attainment, economic status, and even looks do not dictate that one person is inferior than the other.  This is the same thing with confidence.  One is confident because he knows his strengths and weaknesses, so he knows how to command himself in front of people and believes that by this, he cannot go wrong.  On the other hand, pride tells a person that he is above others because of his nature, or what he has achieved.