APX-IV-0023
“I keep minimizing my own wins so I don't seem arrogant.”
There is a difference between humility and self-erasure. Humility is accurate self-assessment. Constantly minimizing real accomplishments is not modest, it is dishonest in the other direction, and it trains you to distrust your own capability.
Your Practice
Practice stating one recent win plainly, without hedging, without "but," without crediting luck alone. Say it out loud to yourself: what you did, what it took, what it produced. Accurate acknowledgment of what you've done is not arrogance. It is self-knowledge.
The Architects
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," Essays: First Series, 1841