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Before you brush this off based on its title, it isn’t what you think. This is not a generic article telling you not to be cocky or not to be the stereotypical arrogant lawyer from the movies. This is about the way that humility manifests in various attributes that benefit you and improve your overall work experience. Sometimes, being driven involves more humility than confidence, because you have to be willing to “hustle” and network, and it can be humbling to try and fail and have to try again.
The 2008 crash humbled a lot of people, one of whom was Julie Honour. She had just been accepted at a great law firm, only to be made redundant on her first day, left alone in a city where she had bills to pay. She felt incredibly vulnerable but ultimately made the decision to embrace that vulnerability. She started telling everyone that she was looking for a job while speaking about the value that she could add. It took relentless determination — which she called “scrappiness” –- as well as an incredible amount of humility to acknowledge that what she needed was more important than her ego. In our interview, she speaks more about how scrappiness is the use of creativity to address the vulnerability.