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Modern humility is misplaced: it has moved from ambition to conviction

Drawn from what G. K. Chesterton said

Subjectsambitionhumility
What these subjects mean

ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.

What G. K. Chesterton actually said

  1. G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
    But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be.

    Where this was said

    ↗Orthodoxy (1908)gutenberg.org

    c. 1908

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