Benefits of Humility: 8 Ways Being Humble Improves Your Life
The benefits of humility include coping with anxiety, higher self-control and better relationships. The poet Tennyson once said that humility is, “the highest virtue, the mother of them all.” Yet society celebrates over-confidence, entitlement and a perpetual focus on the self. People are increasingly competitive, attention-seeking, narcissistic, obsessed with their appearance and entitled. A new study, though, underlines eight ways in which the benefits of humility can help us improve our lives (Kesebir, 2014). The author of the study, psychologist…