Étiquette : Humble
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
Sir Henry Royce
When you enter a new field, we can usually be sure of a few things:
1: You’re not nearly as good or as important as you think you are.
2: You have an attitude that needs to be readjusted.
3: Most of what you think you know, or most of what you learned in books or in school, is cout of date or wrong.
Ryan Holiday
Being humble, here, means being aware of how difficult your instincts can make it to get the facts right. It means being realistic about the extent of your knowledge. It means being happy to say “I don’t know.” It also means, when you do have an opinion, being prepared to change it when you discover new facts. It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.
Hans Rosling. « Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. »