Staying Humble

[birdsnestfern]

Staying Humble shows a bit of class. This post will be any belief or habit that helps you stay humble. If you had to teach humility, what would you teach to a prideful person?

 

[birdsnestfern]

 

[Puffy]

Might not be entirely on topic but I’m not sure pride is a purely bad thing. If someone carries excessive shame then having pride in oneself and one’s actions can be healing to that. Like when a parent says, “I’m proud of you”, pride is saying “I am a good thing.”

 

[birdsnestfern]

Ok, good point. I guess as long as its doing you and others good, pride is fine.
People need to be learn to reign in when there is too much and give themselves more when too little.

 

[Old Things]

 

[Hadoblado]

I don't think humility should be about what other people think. I see humility as knowing yourself without favoritism. I see a lot of false humility used in the name of smoothing social relations, but it's obvious that these people say one thing while thinking another.

The type of humility I favour in others is when people celebrate themselves, but they also celebrate others too. They're not jockeying for position or maintaining an inflated ego, they're just maintaining good vibes. Part of this is responding to actual performance rather than some abstract latent potential and ideas about who "deserves" acknowledgement.

 

[EndogenousRebel]

Pride is basically an analog to serotonin.

Can't live with it can't live without it sorta deal.

The consequence is resentment, but that is pretty much on par with "metabolizing" other negative emotions. Pride especially stings right?

Are some people more vain than others? Probably, but what are we even talking about when we're talking about vanity? What does that represent in the mind and physically really?

Behaviorally yes, psychoanalytically maybe? We can certainly construct a solid case against being prideful, but honestly, we have so many of the problems society had previously that we should really make sure we aren't just creating new problems by holding ourselves to vague standards.

Like, what is this fucking communist china where you're gonna drop my credit score?

I think that you should only really say something when you think such pride may hurt the person who is wielding it.

 

[fluffy]

Emotion is a pressure, an energy.

It wants us to act immediately or not at all.

It can build up inside, or not.

We avoid it or embrace it.

This is for solving the problem each emotion exists as a cure.

Fear, anger, sadness, anxiety, happiness.

More.

They all get you to do actions as you feel them.

Working against them can be bad.

It depends on how we learned to control them.

What helped us in the past as children.

Some can regulate them well and others cannot.

So it is best to learn how to decondition one's self from harmful actions.

Based on what we did with our emotions in the past.