Humility is a superpower!
Check how humble you are by answering the following 5 questions –
1. Do you mention how you contribute to the team or spend your day without being asked?
If the answer to this is yes, you are not humble. You may argue that you are just narrating facts, but the reality is that you are superimposing yourself on the other by glorifying your ways.
2. Do you always feel extra pressure in team/group projects and presentations?
If yes, it means you lack humility. If you self-analyze you will realize that you feel the pressure more because you consider yourself above others and doubt their abilities.
3. Do you micromanage intentionally or unintentionally?
If yes, it means you are far from being humble. Micromanaging is not for the good of the project or others in the team, it is because you consider your ways superior.
4. Do you always find a negative in the other person?
If yes, then you need help with humility. When you always find a negative in the other, it implies that by mentioning the negative you want to establish your supremacy over the other.
5. Do you use a lot of ‘I’ in your conversations?
If yes, then consider it as a subtle sign to recheck how humble you are. When discussing your day with your spouse or a friend if you throw a lot of ‘I’s’ like – I did this, I did that, I thought about it, I faced it, and so on, it means you are self-obsessed with your ways.
The opposite of humility is not pride, it is stagnation because humility means growth.
I hope the above questions will steer your mind towards humility, an important virtue!