Is there anything more frustrating than not being able to get something accomplished due to the fact that you do not know what you are doing and absolutely refuse to ask for help?
Not in my experience there isn't.
And that's because asking for help with something you do not understand or are having difficulty comprehending requires humility and humility is, for all intents and purposes, submission.
Which is difficult to deal with when submission is not part of your character make-up.
Being humbled by a task of any kind is not only frustrating, it can also be paralyzing, which means that not only do you not know how to get the task done, but you are standing around stewing in your ignorance not getting the task done.
That is why it is important to remember that the key to dealing with being forced into humility are these two simple rules:
1) Ditch your ego
2) Remember at all times that humility doesn't make you any less of a person - in fact, humility is the one sure way to make yourself a better person.
How's that, you say? Well, once you've humbled yourself into accepting the fact that you need help with something (re: ditched your ego), you're now fertile ground for some learnin'.
Learnin', as we all know, is what makes us better. Once you've become better at something you've added to your abilities and have enhanced your worth, which also enhances your self-worth.
Self-worth through humility. Sounds kooky, but it works.
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