Humility Is The New Grit

It’s much harder than it sounds. And we need it more than ever.

Corinne Purtill
Forge
Published in
6 min readDec 24, 2019

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Illustration: JAVILOSTCONTROL

PPersonality traits are not passing fashions. Humans have been grappling with the competing attractions of avarice, pride, anger, patience, kindness, and the like since we began judging our neighbors in the next cave. But personality research follows trends, and writing about such research definitely does.

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Corinne Purtill
Forge
Writer for

Journalist with words at Time, Quartz, and elsewhere. Author of Ghosts in the Forest, a Kindle Single.