from imposter syndrome About Humility
- humility について
- When someone says something like, “That’s great,” I sometimes reflexively say, “No, no, it’s not.”
- There’s a culture that calls this “modesty” and sees it as a positive thing.
- On the other hand, this is also an act of bashing away at the other person’s “wow” feelings.
- I saw a story like that at some point in my life and thought, “That’s true,” so when I felt like saying, “No, no, it’s not true,” I try to reply, “Thank you very much.
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- Same when he praised my daughter.
- I’m trying to pay it back, but I’m not convinced.
- I guess I don’t have to agree with you.
- I’ll take the fact that you said that as a given.
- I’m not “convinced,” and I don’t think I need to be.
- Like, “Wow, you think so.”
- Positive or negative evaluations are just “you think so”.
- Accepting” and “agreeing” are two different things.
- You wrote it here.
- It is one thing to accept a person’s claim A and another to believe that the claim is true.
- This person said A” is an observed fact.
- A is interpretation
- facts are not the same as interpretations
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- Specific examples of “Accepting others’ evaluations”
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