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Contraposition Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
humbling experience
What does a 'humbling experience' mean?
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An experience in which your pride was hurt.
- An experience in which your pride was hurt.
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an experience that makes you feel humble
an experience that makes you feel that you are not as good at something as you thought you were.
eg I thought I was a fast runner, but when I raced an Olympic gold medal winner it was a very humbling experience.
an experience that makes you feel that you are not as good at something as you thought you were.
eg I thought I was a fast runner, but when I raced an Olympic gold medal winner it was a very humbling experience.
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"Humbling" is value neutral. I simply denotes a change in personal perspective gaining insight into the possibility of greater or different scale. Watching a Killer Whale surface only yards from a small (yet substantial) boat I was in was a humbling experience. Any experience causing you to reevaluate yourself can be humbling. Such as a small child wrapping their arms around your neck and telling
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