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Learning not to judge is much more difficult than it sounds

"If I am being completely honest, I am one of the most judgmental people that I know. At times, it can be a real pain in the ass. I would say that most of the judgments that I create are born from a place of  straight up, good-old-fashioned ignorance."  "I'm pretty uneducated. I know a lot about a select couple of subjects and that's it. The majority of my collective knowledge is completely useless. I have found very few situations in which my brain-tricks are found to be valuable." The entirety of the last two paragraphs are perfect examples of how difficult it can be to discuss oneself without drowning our self confidence in a toxic bath of misplaced modesty. Both of those statements have left my mouth in the last couple of months intentionally, without humor. There is a distinction between being modest, and being self-defeating. There is an argument to be made in the case of modesty. However, there is no excuse for cutting yourself short. Oddly eno

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