find it curious that we often speak about people thinking too highly of themselves. I don’t think that I have ever met a person who thought highly enough of himself. One bit of fallen wisdom claims that we can help people by “keeping them humble,” which often means humiliating them. If you watch what happens, you learn that humiliating someone is a sure way not to make him humble, in the same way that you cannot make people lovable by hating them, or kind by being cruel to them.
