Tag: humility

• Let shame say what it will

  Call me overly sensitive, but I don’t like to be shamed. There, I’ve said it. I suspect it is because shaming causes me to think less of myself: to feel humiliated, demeaned. And yet, there is another side to humiliation that seems to hide in the shadows: the feeling of humility – ‘This amounts not…

  gozzter

  August 12, 2020

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  appraisal respect, ethics, exemplary individuals, humiliation, humility, Immanuel Kant, Louise Chapman, moral education, moral hydraulics, Pembroke College, shame, shaming, Sigmund Freud, social media, sublimation, University of Cambridge

• The Cancer We Think We Know…

  In those early, once-upon-a-time days when I thought I knew everything and before humility had forced itself upon my stage, a haggard middle aged woman named Mary walked into my office a week early for her appointment. It was in the young days of my career and as it happened, a patient who was scheduled for that…

  gozzter

  May 2, 2014

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  cancer, certainty, feelings about cancer, humility, knowing cancer, operations for cancer, ovarian cysts, ovary cancer