Theme of Zoom Meeting: Humility
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by Richard E. Gordon Last updated: May
23, 2022
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I suggest you read over the questions before our meeting and select those you are especially interested in discussing. We will focus on those selected questions
1. What does humility mean to you? Dictionary definition. Antonyms.
2. How does someone show humility?
3. What is the greatest act of humility you have ever witnessed?
4. What factors nourish humility? Childhood influences? Genetics? Religious beliefs? Life hardships? Others?
5. What kind of life experiences might make a person grow in humility?
6. Can you have too much humility?
7. Do women tend to be more humble than men?
8. Is humility a personality asset or a liability?
9. Can you be a successful politician without ever showing humility?
10. What does the expression, “Pride comes before the fall ..” mean to you? How about “Humility comes after the fall.”?
11. Can a successful leader be adored by millions of followers partly because she/he never shows humility?
12. What is the opposite of humility? Describe someone who seemed to exemplify this opposite? Did this opposite characteristic help or hinder her/his career success?
13. Can you possess both the characteristics of pride and humility?
14. What is cultural humility? Should it be taught in high school?
15. Does humility tend to grow in us as we get older? What factors may cause this growth?
16. What is a symbol of humility? Of pride? How might these symbols be used in advertising and in propaganda?
17. Does the acquisition of great wealth weaken a person’s humility? Is achieving great financial success a negative influence on humility?
18. Imagine someone saying to you, “Why are you always so humble?” Would you feel complimented or insulted?
19. Can you be proud of yourself and yet be humble?
20. We speak of our pride being hurt, but how can our humility be hurt as well?
21. Comment on this: “I am proud of my humility.”
22. Can you imagine a town named “Humble” or “Humility”? What do you imagine would be the characteristic of such a town? And how about a town name “Pride’?
23. What new idea about humility did you get from our discussion of humility?
Additional Suggested websites for:
1. Results of a Google Search limited to college or university sites on the topic of humility. I suggest you skip over a site begun with Ad which indicates Google receives advertisement money for including the site in a prominent position in your search results.
2. Can humility fix health care?
3. Is cultural humility a topic worth exploring? More information on cultural humility?
1. “If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.”Anand Mahindra
2. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” Rick Warren
3. “Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.” -- Rick Pitino
“A great man is always willing to be little.”―
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”―
“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.”―
“Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.”―
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”―
9. “If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn't know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of people who don't get invited, such as his customers.” —The Economist, 26 Jan. 2013