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stella 10 asked in Social SciencePsychology · 9 years ago

How would you explain the difference between low self esteem and humility?

I've been trying to sort out a difference for years but find it hard to explain.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    As simply as I can- low self esteem is believing one had no worth as a person, which is a bad thing and usually rooted in some form of abuse and humility is simply having a conscious awareness of one's shortcomings, which is a good thing.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Yes, they are very different qualities. Low self-esteem is not having any faith in yourself as a person and not liking yourself or believing in your own qualities as a person. It is not liking who you are as a human being. This makes a person vulnerable and apt to lose your own identity.

    Humility is the opposite. It's knowing yourself enough to be the strong person. You have a strong confidence in yourself and know yourself very well. What is more you like yourself and what makes you a good person. Humility is being strong enough to back down when its necessary and let another person shine and take the lead. Being humble doesn't mean you are weak. It means you are in total control and can take the back seat once in a while and not be embarrassed or ashamed because you know who you are as a person and are strong enough to put others first and not lose your own identity.

  • 9 years ago

    Low self esteem is to permanently be down on your self about everything. Humility is to be embarrassed about a certain event

  • 4 years ago

    in case you already know you're gruesome meaning you are able to look in the mirror and notice what's certainly there. in case you have low shallowness meaning you do unlike who you're, or which you do unlike a lot of issues approximately you. shallowness has extra to do with emotional concepts while being gruesome has to do which incorporate your visual charm. yet do no longer attempt to gloat approximately being gruesome or each physique is extra acceptable on the grounds that shows low shallowness and each and every time you're saying that or think of it, it lowers your shallowness.

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