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• THE MEEK.

  Success is contingent upon intelligence. And intelligence doesn’t hinge upon book smarts or scholastics as much as it does humility.  

  I graduated from a 4-year university and then law school, but everyday I meet people who are wholly smarter and sharper than I am who have barely graduated high school and never been to college. It’s the truth.  Most CEOs and Presidents weren’t star pupils, yet they oversee and direct those straight-A students.  How can this be?  I’d attribute it all to an awareness and nurturing of humility.

  Humility breaks you.  It shuts your mouth, it encourages you to listen and be observant, it forces you to put your head down and focus, to work hard and to contribute.  Humility breaks you from your selfish nature and it helps you see the community around you.  Your consciousness of the other frees your mind of ignorance, and fills it instead with education and inspiration.  Humility not only holds a mirror to yourself, but reflects the world. You realize how little and insignificant and endlessly stupid you are. You are small, and the more you humble yourself, the smaller you get even still.

  But in that cooled levelness and zeroed state of ego, your intelligence is pruned and your success is harvested.  Once you realize how unimportant and uncool you really are, once you let yourself go, can you adapt and react and move quickly.  ”The meek will inherit the earth.”

  *This is just another reminder to myself.

  25 Sep 2011 / 233 notes