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lil  ·  4423 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: Why Is Public Speaking So Difficult?

I think you're right. We live in a culture that, at the very least, is ambivalent about modesty. People are discouraged from tooting their own horn, or being too full of themselves; but pop culture is all about tooting, and we are expected to sell ourselves and pitch our ideas to employers.