Humility, Humility, Humility.
A few days ago I posted a Ted Talk from Amy Edmonson on Twitter. The name of the talk is “How to turn a group of strangers into a team” and it was shared with me by a colleague at work. The Ted talk has +240K views and it is really simple and short yet very interesting and inspiring. The key highlight to me is when she talks about a “basic human challenge: It is hard to learn if we already know”. She also talks about three key factors for a group of people to become a team:
- Stay humble in the face of challenge
- Be curious about what others bring
- Be willing to take risk
Link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boKz0Exros
But what made me feel happy about it as well, is that in my interview to Eduardo he shared a very similar statement about humility which he chose as one of his superpowers. He said “Humility is the willingness to learn from someone else”. His statement definitely aligns with Amy Edmonson’s talk and her concept around humility. And since this is also very much aligned with the “Linchpin” concept as a key attribute of people that want to become indispensable, I decided I wanted to make of this my next drawing.
Interesting enough, when I decided to draw this I didn't know what to draw so I googled “Humility symbol”. And what you will see next is what I found. It is the African symbol for Humility, the Dwennimmen, literally meaning “ram’s horns,” which symbolizes that even the strong have to also be humble. The symbol is a bird’s eye view of two rams butting heads, and the rams’ horns symbolizes strength and humility through the characteristics of a ram.
I am so happy that the blog is allowing me to learn and be inspired by others and also that I am learning new things like this African symbol for humility which I hope it becomes a source of inspiration for those that will read this story and have a look at the drawing.
