About

Among all else, Humbly.Us represents those of us who seek to embrace a humble understanding of ourselves that unconditionally meets our most basic psychological needs and is inviolable against would-be threats to our self-concept and identity, mitigating the dependencies we often unknowingly have on cognitive self-defense mechanisms that cause short and long term harms. And, by recognizing the universal truth of this self in us all, with its unlimited sense of intrinsic self-worth, always-deserved esteem, and justified self-compassion, we can extend that compassion towards each other with every opportunity afforded to us as far as personal boundaries will allow.

My name is Alex, and after spending most of my life looking to solve for harmful closed-mindedness as much it could be, beyond the established understanding of the human condition we are so often told we must accept as is, I inadvertently developed a method that does so much more. The Humble Self-Concept Method addresses a species-wide skills gap that has avoided detection in the technical sense for our entire history, replacing the unconsciously developed and life-long hypervigilance causing harmful coping mechanisms with a skill taught and learned with intentionality… how to structure and maintain our self-concept and how it interacts with the rest of our belief system so that it can never be threatened by new information.

Unironically, it took finishing the creation of this method for me to realize just how hypocritical I had been throughout the decades of working on it. The very same closedmindedness I saw people expressing, I would express even greater with the false sense of immunity I believed I had earned by working on the problem itself. That is the pervasiveness of it that unless we’re specifically made aware of the skill needed to fill the gap, we fall right in.

Plato had it mostly right when it came to the Allegory of the Cave (6-minute video), but it was created within, widens, and further enables those within the skill gap to believe they’re not, a result of the Dunning-Kruger effect (4-minute video), a lack of skill and the resulting bias inspiring the use of the allegory as evidence of having surpassed it with greater self-awareness. Not only are we both the prisoner and the shadow puppeteer, but we can also never leave the cave. When we believe ourselves to have left the cave, finding greater awareness, we’re merely looking at the shadows we create for ourselves alone, so realistic, and so honest and logical seeming relative to the shadows people were creating together, that we convince ourselves we left the cave entirely when we had never left… giving us a false sense of awareness superiority. And because this is true of us all, a combination of our experiencing the shadows alone, together, and opposed from one another, we all end up believing the same thing about ourselves… a false sense of relative awareness, that as long as we can maintain it, allows us to proudly settle on the okay plateau of intellectual growth. This and the perception of great progress relative to the past effectively being a painfully slow crawl compared to the potential of the future, traps us in what not only resembles having stopped entirely… but allows our counter-productivity to compound so much that, in many ways, we’re going backward.

Assuming this is true, this is what we’re trying to do something about. By working together, using AI to help humans become super-aligned with themselves individually and as a whole more consistently, and teaching our children the skills we’ve been missing out on so far in this great intellectual trial & error we were saddled with thanks to evolving the capacity for concept-containing language, we can break this generational cycle of children unknowingly making due in ways that will only come to hurt themselves and others and becoming adults who have an allergy to humble pie rather than a taste for it. This allowing them a chance to better cope with the adversities of life without the need for a self-deceit that can perpetually keep itself hidden, we can much more efficiently get as close as we can come to peace in this world, solving problems of any scale incredibly faster.

If this resonates with you and how you feel about the world, or you want a better life for yourself and/or your children, our learning how to develop and internalize a humble yet robust self-confidence and resiliency by learning how to tap into an unlimited and unconditional sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-compassion, and then helping others learn the same, I hope you’ll consider learning about the Humble Self-Concept Method and join Humbly.Us in this mission.

-Alex