Thursday, March 11, 2004

Modesty and Bravado Both Have Their Places

Individuals, in many instances, have either modesty or bravado.  Too much of one and not enough of the other or vice versa.  Anne Karpf, writing for the Guardian Unlimited, has penned a piece titled “A plea for modesty." Karpf’s piece is somewhat introspective, even modest, but is an interesting read.  A quote from the piece follows.

"Yet, viewing modern Britain, he’d have diagnosed a nation of narcissists and exhibitionists, a case of arrested infantilism. Hooked on applause, we’re toddlers living in a world of one, our every achievement magnified and celebrated. The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they’re but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can’t just be railed against. In short, they’re adults."

I think you need both modesty and bravado.  It’s how and when you project them that really matters.

Via LewRockwell.com blog.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/11 at 07:30 AM
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