Humility and the Story of A Teacher ...

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No doubt being humble has many benefits. Humility can help us be more content with our life, and it can also help us endure bad times and improve our relationships with others.

It's also vitally important to being an effective learner. If we think we know it all, we won't be open-minded enough to seek out new knowledge.

Humility is also, somewhat, an excellent tool for self-development in general. After all, if we feel superior, we have no incentive to improve.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to encounter an act of humility.

DD was my school English mentor for a native speaker programme. As parts of the programme, he did a class in the morning. He did it extremely well and the kids enjoyed his class immensely. At the end of the day, he'd to evaluate his own performance and place scores for each category.

Being a humble teacher, he restrained himself from putting  perfect scores in most of the categories. His justification was he wasn't quick enough to gauge the kid's proficiency level, and to me and my colleagues, it  was a sheer humbleness.

What about you? Have you come across any humbleness?  Were they being humble or sycophantic?

Each of us has our very own strength ...

I always look up to others and belittle my own capabilities. One's dresses used to deceive me. One's look used to deceive me. One's way at words deceived me greatly. I used to generalise that they were the best God creature.

But, thank God. Those were things of the past. I've learnt a very precious lesson. Not all who dress up to the nine are genius. Not all who have good look, have good brain. Not all who preach well are intelligent.

Each of us has been bestowed with our own intelligence. Our duty is to dig it and to put it to a good use. Don't let others manipulate and intimidate you. Don't allow others to make you look like a moron. Rise and hold your head high. Move forward steadily and carefully! Simplicity and humbleness are the best guidances to success.