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You’re the Boss, Now What? with Desiree Petrich | Leadership and Team Development for Managers and Team Leaders
Leadership Tips | Redefine Humility
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In this week’s leadership tip, we’re redefining humility at work. After hearing Seth Rogen describe Catherine O’Hara as someone who was both a genius and kind, it sparked an important reminder: confidence and humility are not mutually exclusive.
Somewhere along the way, we started confusing humility with shrinking. Downplaying strengths. Pretending we’re not good at something so we don’t seem “too much.” But true humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less. It’s secure leadership. It’s knowing your value without needing to announce it.
As a leader, you don’t have to choose between being confident and being humble. You can bring strength, generosity, and self-awareness to your team at the same time.
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Desiree (00:01.57)
Hey, friend, welcome back for your weekly leadership tip from Desiree. One small idea to carry you into your life and leadership this week. And the tip this week is redefine humility. So I had a completely different tip plan for today that I'll do next week, but I was scrolling on Instagram like we do when we are trying to stall and procrastinate. And I came across a video from last night's actor awards. And Seth Rogan was accepting the actor award on behalf of Catherine O'Hara.
If don't know who that is, she played Moira on Schitt's Creek. She was the mom on Home Alone. She was one of the lead actresses in Beetlejuice and she recently passed away. Now, not a lot of celebrity deaths affect me in the way that hers did. I had spent a lot of time watching different interviews that she had done after Schitt's Creek. I really loved how happy she was and how carefree she was and how seemingly humble she was from the outside looking in.
But in this video that stopped me in my tracks, Seth Rogen said, had an ability to be generous and kind and gracious without ever minimizing her own talents. She really showed that you can be genius and kind. And one of those things does not need to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape or form. I'm going to link the video here in the show notes on Instagram. If you want to watch it, I teared up watching it.
But the thing that got to me when he said that was we saw her humility. We saw her truly be generous and kind and humble. But if you have ever been to one of my workshops, I will always tell you that humility is on a spectrum and where a lot of times we want something to its fullest extent, we want to be as humble or as confident or you name it, as kind as possible.
Humility is something in the middle. It's something that we don't want to be overly humble because what ends up happening is we end up with a lack of humility because we can't see our own value. We can't see how amazing we are and the strengths that we have. We can't tend to overcome the challenges that we have. We shrink. And that is not humility. That is a lack of humility in the sense of we just don't even know our own value. On the other end of the spectrum is overly
Desiree (02:28.298)
Arrogant is the word I would use. Somewhere in the middle is that confidence. In other words, it is a completely fluid game and something that you will never fully perfect. But as he was talking about being able to be kind and genius and generous and none of those things needing to be mutually exclusive, I just thought that is the perfect message for today as we are all trying to make sure that we are not too loud.
and we're not too much and we are not saying things that are going to rock the boat. I will tell you that sometimes it's okay to be not only humble and understand
Desiree (03:28.856)
Somewhere along the way, we started confusing humility with being small and downplaying our strengths and pretending that we're not good at something so we don't come across as arrogant. But arrogant and confident are not the same thing. I say every week in the intro to this podcast to help you lead yourself and your team with more confidence. C.S. Lewis said it best, humility is not thinking less of oneself, but thinking of themselves less.
It doesn't mean that you don't know how amazing you are. It doesn't mean that you don't know the strength and the value you bring to a team and to your family and to your friends. It just means that you don't have to shout it from the rooftops. It just means that you can try and get that from other people. You can work really hard to make people know their own value and to know how amazing they are and how kind and generous and share that appreciation with them. But it doesn't mean that you have to be any less of those things. I don't know if I said it as
eloquently as Seth did when he accepted the actor award on her behalf, but it just it literally stopped me in my tracks. And I think it's an important message to know that you can be considered humble and truly be humble without thinking less of yourself. So I hope that this sparks something in you to remember that you are amazing. And as you enter into this week, just remember that
Desiree (05:06.104)
Confidence and humility are not mutually exclusive and you can have both. So I will see you here back next week for a new tip on life and leadership.
Desiree (05:22.68)
I will see you back here next week for a new tip on life and leadership. But until then, thank you for joining me and have a great week.