The Curse of Humility
If there is one quality that all of us adore, it is humility. Over time it has become one of the highly overrated virtues. Egotism, on the other hand, is constantly vilified. We scorn egotists and look at the concept of egotism contemptuously. We never really understood why do we show this bias towards humility over egotism, and this behavioural trait has been shoved upon us for ages by society. For instance, let us have a short detour and enter into mythology. The story goes like this - The Trinity of Hinduism, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva decided to test themselves to assert who was the greatest among them. Brahma claimed that he was the greatest because he had created the universe and that we perceive beauty, ugliness, happiness, sadness, humanity, nature and whatnot in his universe. Lord Shiva manifested himself as Analstamba (Pillar of fire) between them. Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu were very surprised to see the fire pillar, which was so enormous that it reached the sky and penetrate...