Humility is not pretending you have no gifts.

It is knowing that your gifts do not make you more worthy than anyone else.

For a long time, I thought success meant being liked by the room.

Not respected, exactly. Liked.

I thought that if I were easy enough to work with, sufficiently warm, and never too sure of myself, respect and success would eventually follow.

So I made myself easy to have in a room. I listened past the point of usefulness. I turned objections into questions…