Pride the silent killer
Pride might be the worst thing about a person. If it was a person, it behaves like a thief, it seeps in slowly and is often mistaken for confidence or certainty.
With the assistance of time and self-awareness, learning becomes stagnant and eventually stops altogether.
This isn't the case for the most intelligent people. They stay humble and keep the door open.
There is a wall between self-awareness and pride. Self-awareness is constantly checking what you think you know versus what is actually true. Facing that space between the two is where the most growth happens to you. Staying humble doesn't mean you need to doubt yourself because I have once mistaken my own self-doubt for humility. Your self-doubt is a limitation, humility is your openness to change of perspective by someone else's better idea or lesson than what you thought before.
What self-doubt does is it paralyzes your own emotions and your ability to think deeply. If it was humility and not self-doubt, you would be able to move toward your future like a hot knife through butter. There will be obstacles, there always will be, but the proud won't take advice from anyone on what to do, the humble will.
The humble person goes up faster because he's moving with the wisdom of everyone, the proud is moving with his opinion, the humble person has already gained an advantage.
The moment you feel you've arrived in life and know it all, you shut your ears to new information and you stop growing. Whatever you accomplished might be the last significant thing you actually do because before you accomplished all that, you were listening and taking instructions. It's just like an airplane shutting down its engine midair, it may look like it's still flying but it's just a matter of time, it'll fall from grace.
You will never come to a point where you don't need to learn. It's impossible to know it all and if you managed to do that impossible thing, you can't retain it all, you'll need to keep learning some more.
I'm always eager to learn something new. I try to be humble but also know the difference between humility and allowing yourself to be humiliated. Some do confuse the two.
If they're correcting you to be better, allow it, if they're bringing out your weakness to shame you, don't allow that.
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