On arrogance and humility in the rock tumbler of our publishing life

Arrogance is the belief that we can control the chaos of our lives if we know just the right metrics, reduce things into just the right formulas, and gather just the right advice. It’s what keeps us scrambling for external validation like lab mice in a cheese maze instead of doing the work to feel calm and fulfilled just as we are.

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Humility is asserting your needs and guarding your serenity. It is being. It’s just being. Being and letting be.

Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the temptat... See more