Humility By John Wilkinson Summary

From a historic perspective, author, John Dickson offers his readers a straightforward. attempt to describe the importance of humility for contemporary life, love, and leadership and to outline it's real benefits (Dickson,19). He goes on to points us to why he feels it is important to analyze the subject of humility from this historical perspective. He says, " The reader of history is the ultimate pollster, canvassing the opinion of the entire human family" (Dickson, 18). He makes a simple thesis statement: the most influential and inspiring people are often marked by humility (Dickson, 19). He then shares his aim for writing this book, to convince readers of the logic, beauty, and benefits of the ancient virtue of humilitas (Dickson, 29). Next, Dickson issues a

The second is that humility is willing. If humility is not a choice, it's humiliation. Finally, the author says that humility is social, not a private act of self depreciation. It's about redirecting your powers for the sake of others (Dickson, 25). Dickson sets about proving his thesis statement by refining it, and suggested that humility, rightly understood, has often marked the most influential and inspiring people in history's. He personifies humility in our minds by using the lives, words, and acts of history's most prolific religious leaders, like Gandhi, scholars, like Martin Hegelur and Professor Richard Bauckham athletes, such as boxing legend, Joe Louis, and Argentine soccer great, Diego Maradona, social activists, like philosophers, like Aristotle, musicians, that included the rock band, U2. He used his encounter with a group of indigenous aboriginal musicians to explain what he calls, forced humilitas. The author goes on by illustration of the fact that humility is logical, beautiful, and beneficial for life, love, and leadership. Humility is logical because it is common sense. He reminds us of the sensibility of our admitting that what we know weighs so little against what