Humility is the Willingness to Understand Another Person Without Prejudice (There’s No Human Dignity Without It)

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Humility cultivates connection and acceptance through the willingness to understand another person’s perspective, values, or beliefs.

You don’t have to agree.

With humility, you are seeking to understand how you and the person you’re speaking with show up in the world. You’re seeking truth without the need to be right. You’re building a bridge to recognize both your contributions and place in the world and for the common good.

A healthy common good requires free-flowing communication.

The root meaning of communication is to commune, to share your intimate thoughts or feelings with someone else.

Quality communication requires vulnerability and open-hearted courage to share our truth, which cultivates trust, supporting acceptance and connection. The more we trust another person, the closer the connection. The deeper the connection, the more you’ll accept that person.

Unfortunately, this is not our current norm.

Talking over/at, shouting, ignoring, cancelling.