How can we be humble without appearing weak?

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Krishna Prabhupada How can we be humble without being seen as weak? To some extent I explained that Humility means At one level in corporate world We just open to other people’s suggestions But Sometimes we have Certain stereotype conceptions of humility Humility doesn’t mean That we have to constantly be Confessing our inability I remember once in my early days When I was just learning to speak in public There were couple of my other friends also So He One of my friends was also giving a spiritual talk Just learning to give a talk He started his talk by saying Actually I am a fool I don’t know anything And all of you have come here to hear me You are wasting your time Now He was saying it humility But that is going to alienate your audience Why are you wasting your time Don’t come here Isn’t it So that’s kind of humility where we just Keep speaking about our inabilities In a way that alienates other people That’s not humility at all That is actually just That’s You could say almost like a Self pity or negative Self obsession See some people are self obsessed In a way how great I am And some people are self obsessed In how greatly poor I am So when people are See the difference between humility And say Inferiority complex Is that humility Is false ego rejected Whereas Inferiority complex Is false ego frustrated False ego frustrated I want the whole world to think I am great But what to do I can’t do anything great So I want to be great But I can’t That’s false ego frustrated But false ego rejected means I want to do something worthwhile If people appreciate it that’s good If they don’t but still I will keep doing something worthwhile So I would say that In the corporate world If a particular role requires us To speak about our abilities Our accomplishments We can always do that That’s what is required for that particular service We see even in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana When warriors are about to fight The warriors often speak About their abilities I have achieved this and I have Defeated this what can you do against That might seem almost like bragging But at one level When there is fighting See fighting is not just a physical confrontation It’s also a mental confrontation And whoever Gets the upper hand in the mental game They are much more likely to win So then at that time When somebody Speaks about their own accomplishments I have defeated you 10 times What do you think you can do now So intimidation Is also one strategy when in confrontation Say somebody is Intimidating the other person Is that ego It could be, we can’t Guaranteedly say it’s not an ego But it doesn’t have to be an ego So for specific Purposes If We need to speak about Our accomplishments Our glories, our achievements It’s perfectly fine The most of the time What are we doing When we are interacting with people If we are just cutting people short If we are Disrespecting them It’s very easy to understand people who are Full of themselves They are just Anything that you speak Some people They practice what is called Autobiographical hearing Autobiographical hearing is If say you had I fell sick What sickness you had I had a sickness 10 years ago And they started themselves This happened and that happened They just don’t hear anyone else So I would say that humility If we understand it as a tool Of not being Essentially not being ego centered But purpose centered Then it won’t come off as weakness Because where we need to take a strong stand Where we need to speak about our accomplishments We can do that It’s more of a overall disposition Rather than a specific action Does that address your question? Yes Ram