Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

Virtue of Magnanimity

I have some­thing of a con­fes­sion to make: a lot of the time I feel inad­e­quate. I feel inad­e­quate in almost every­thing I do, espe­cially in the things oth­ers tell me I’m (really) good at.  When I do feel con­tent with myself, the moment is fleet­ing. I’m con­tent until I come across some­one else who does some­thing sim­i­lar to what I do–except they do it bet­ter. Or at least that’s what I think. It doesn’t mat­ter their age, their edu­ca­tion or their back­ground. It only mat­ters that I see myself as insignif­i­cant com­pared to them and what they are doing, even if the real­ity is the oppo­site. I’ve had feel­ings of inad­e­quacy to the point of  almost believ­ing that if oth­ers really knew how much I didn’t know (and I really don’t know a lot), they would shrug me off as puffed up, a char­la­tan or a fraud. I … (Read more)