[Silverback_VII]

The only advantage I see at beeing humble is that it does not offend people with low self-esteem. One only needs to say to be good at something or to be proud of something to trigger some people. More so in Europe than in the States I think.

[m12k]

It also helps you brainhack yourself into learning more thing, and being more open to other people's perspectives. Not all of these will be valuable, but some of them will be, immensely so. If you have success based solely on your own perspective, it's easy to think you have it all figured out already and overlook where there's room for improvement and outside input.

[Jensson]

A critical component to learning is letting other people see your thoughts and ideas and get them to criticise them. This part is much much easier to do if you aren't humble about it, you only need a tiny bit of humility to read and understand others ideas, anything above that will just hurt your ability to learn.

The most common thing people do is the opposite of the above. They are humble with their own ideas and are scared to show them to people, while they are confident in shooting down others ideas so they don't learn that well from listening. Even people who see themselves as humble are usually following this worst of the worst strategy.

[Silverback_VII]

Not sure about it. To set higher standards for yourself than for others is already a form of arrogance but you will ultimately improve faster.

Grasses are not so happy when a tree starts to grow between them.

[GuB-42]

And even more so in Japan.

But that's just culture/language. In the US, saying that you are good at something is expected, in other countries, you pass the same message just by just saying you do the thing. In these countries, if you say that you are good at something, it is the equivalent of saying "I am a fucking god and no one can approach me" in the US, it is just rude.

[jesuscript]

The biggest problem is you deny yourself the process of attaining true humility if you put up a “act as if” facade of being humble. It’s a falsehood, what you mean to say is you are being non-confrontational.

There is a process in attaining humility, you cannot just adorn yourself in it from the start.