I believe humility is an important characteristic for all people to have or at least understand. After reading Ruscio’s piece on humility, I now see how humility is one of the most important characteristics to good democratic leaders. Kennedy, Washington and Lincoln are some of the most recognized democratic leaders and they for sure embodied humility at some point during their terms.<\/p>\n
I think that humility is a forgotten virtue in civilian life in general bus especially in the political sphere. Today we want political leaders to have new ideas, be firm, decisive, strong and powerful.\u00a0Strong-willed people can still be humble however it is becoming less and less common to have both. In a world where people must fight and be their own advocates, humility is more often replaced with confidence and pride, sometimes in excess.<\/p>\n
We have talked at length about perception in this class. In relation to the perception of confidence with charismatic leaders, what matters more: how we see leaders or how they see themselves? With confidence and charisma, it matters that we perceive the leaders to be confident even if they see themselves as self-conscious. However Ruscio claims that with humility, it matters only that leaders see themselves as imperfect. I disagree with this statement because a leader’s personal belief of humility can and probably is different than what the public perceives as humility. If Trump thinks he is humble, does that mean it does not matter what the rest of the country thinks? Perception plays an important roll in all leadership characteristics but I think it is more important in the case of humility than charisma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I believe humility is an important characteristic for all people to have or at least understand. After reading Ruscio’s piece on humility, I now see…<\/p>\n