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Why do the Meek have need of True Humility?

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
5 min readJul 4, 2020

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Even persons who deem themselves, ‘arrogant’, agree that Meekness is a virtue. How then do they justify their arrogance? Well, typically, they reason that meekness is seen as weakness in the spaces within which they function, as such, is inimical to professional or business success. Pragmatically then, they deviate from meekness to an arrogance that does not necessarily mistreat others. Given arrogance that listens loses character of arrogance, however, there is arrival at necessity of a ‘know it all’ attitude in context of interactions with any of peers, subordinates, or superiors. While there is not then any deliberate intention to hurt others, clearly, regardless, subordinates who feel they are invisible experience emotional hurt.

There exists evidence, however, that meekness can be associated with professional success. In this respect, we see a well respected football coach, Tony Dungy, who has quality of meekness succeed in an industry — National Football League (NFL) — where ‘Rah Rah’ arrogance, which need not necessarily be regarded as evil, sinful, or bad is celebrated. Guess meekness really is not that much of a drawback if you are good at what you do, and ability is regarded as robust substitute for arrogance.

If arrogance is valued, but ability devoid of arrogance is not, we arrive at a…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Written by Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos

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