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Hubris is an inflated sense of one’s own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than actual accomplishment

I can sum up humility with one sentence that emerged from the research…I’m here to get it right, not to be right

Humility allows us to admit when we are wrong. Personal note: I will never be able to think of humility as a tantamount emotion after Kamala Harris reminded the world that not all women are “aspiring to be humble.”

In an incredibly timely and powerful article, “the Near and Far Enemies of Fierce Compassion,” Chris Gerner writes, “Near Enemies are states that appear SIMILAR to the desired quality but actually undermine it. Far enemies are the OPPOSITE of what we are trying to achieve. Personal note: this is how my own emotional theory began - with an understanding that each emotion seems to have an absence and an opposite