The awkward, pigeon-toed, sickly O’Connor beautifully demonstrated the exaltation of humility in her own life and work. Once, when asked by a student at a lecture, “Miss O’Connor, why do you write?” she answered, “Because I’m good at it.”49 At first glance, this reply might seem conceited or proud. But the truth is that knowing what we are good at and what we are not, doing what we are supposed to do and not what we aren’t, being what we are supposed to be and not what we aren’t, is the essence of true humility.
