How Norway Helped Me To Become Super Humble
I used to be confident in everything I did in life. After becoming an ardent fan of Suits, the staggeringly arrogant lead character Harvey Specter subconsciously turned me into a cocky person. There’s a fine line between confidence and cockiness. That line became invisible to me.
After I moved to Norway, I often even quoted Harvey Specter to my Norwegian friends —
“What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head? You do what they say or they shoot you, right? WRONG! You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”
“I’m not interested in great. I want to know who its Daddy is.”
“I don’t play the odds. I play the man.”
And my all-time favorite —
“It’s not bragging if it’s true.”
Little did I know Norwegians were not huge fans of not only cocky people but also…
