Humility Essays and Research Papers

The author finds group therapy to be an underutilized tool in the realm of psychotherapy. First, a meta-analysis conducted by Burlingame and colleagues (2016) stated that individual and group therapy for clients produced treatment outcomes that were equivalent to one another. Meaning, those who went to therapy when dosage, patients, and treatments were equal, the…

Moral Character is the evaluation of an individual’s qualities that include integrity, loyalty, humility, honesty, and good behavior habits. Character is what one does in the dark when no one is looking. It is important to have good qualities, but Per Weiss, “some mitigating circumstances can excuse or lessen a person’s moral responsibility in a…

John Dickson’s Humilitas is a study of the virtue of humility. He states, “My thesis is simple: The most influential and inspiring people are often marked by humility.” (p. 19). He writes with an easy common-sense style and gives us examples of humble leaders. I found it equally to be a study of humility that…

William Blake’s collection of Songs of Innocence and of Experience stands first as a simple representation of a fallen world as seen through an innocent soul, and then an ill-favored representation of the same world through the experienced soul. Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love are Christian values personified through a pair of poems in this…

For the past centuries the political system has been the driving force for the development and sustainability of nations. Throughout the year’s historians has recognized and recorded some the world’s most powerful countries and nations that have ever existed. These powerful nations all had something in common they were under the rule of a leader….

Ethics is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, “a set of moral issues that is a guiding philosophy that deals with good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” (Definition of ETHICS, 2020). We as young humans learn what is right and what is wrong from a variety of different places. When we interact…

Ten people attended the open Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) meeting held in Miami FL, United States. Eight of the total attendants were men while three were women. Additionally, two of them were newcomers, who had participated in the meeting for less than three months. After explaining to the chair that I was a nursing student, he…

To understand the underlying mechanism of strategic actions and organizational outcomes, we must understand the personality traits of organization leaders (e.g., Finkelstein, Hambrick et al., 2009; Hambrick, 2007). Prior research of personality traits in management and social psychology has shown that leader traits do affect strategic actions and organizational outcomes (e.g., Forsyth, Banks et al.,…

Though both Beowulf and Batman hold many similar qualities, they have differences as well. The main dissimilarities lie behind their intentions. Humility has become a desired trait in modern times today, whereas in Beowulf’s time self-confidence to the point of hauteur was a favorable attribute. Beowulf fights the monsters for praise and worthiness. On the…

After around 2000 a growing number of women in Dakar have come to Senegal to serve publicly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. When urban youth transform to the Fay a Tijāniyya Sufi Islamic movement in pursuit of meaning and culture, these women offer instruction in practicing Islam and fostering spiritual awareness of…