# Why is it important to be humble? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141 "2013-04-30T20:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 129
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/129 "2013-05-02T14:28:36Z")
Actually taking another look at her post, I’m not sure it makes all that much sense: > [@2013 Weight Loss & Healthy Living Support Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-weight-loss-healthy-living-support-thread/651411/152): > > She seems like a smart lady but it gets on my nerves a bit when I see someone with her/my body type preaching to normal people. I’m sure she **eats strictly and exercises plenty, to be so lean at her age** , but 95% of us could do what she does and not even look like the same species. Meanwhile I look like her without even trying (granted I am active and eat a lot of protein - but I also eat a ton of calories and fat, and haven’t done any real exercise in months now). On the one hand, Rhubarbarin seems to concede that in order for this woman to look the way she does, **she has to eat strictly and exercise plenty**. On the other hand she’s lumping herself into this person’s body type only to say that she doesn’t have to do this. Which essentially refutes Rhubarbarin’s point I think, since it seems to admit that this woman does not actually have Rhubarbarin’s genetics (ie, genetics that would allow her to look as she does without working out). That this woman has to put some serious effort into achieving the look she has. In general I would agree with Rhubarbarin’s larger point; that the genetic component is real and while you can make significant progress towards your fitness goals, you may not attain ‘perfection’ if that perfection is due to genetics. The way that she expressed it is rather confused though. On the second viewing of what she wrote, this sentence does look out of place (as **pulykamell** pointed out). > [@2013 Weight Loss & Healthy Living Support Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-weight-loss-healthy-living-support-thread/651411/152): > > Meanwhile I look like her without even trying (granted I am active and eat a lot of protein - but I also eat a ton of calories and fat, and haven’t done any real exercise in months now). It’s out of place because you’ve essentially admitted that this fitness lady does **not have your body type** (i.e, **the type that requires no effort** ), instead this lady has **had to work at it** , which makes your initial irritation puzzling: > [@](#): > > She seems like a smart lady but it gets on my nerves a bit when I see someone with **her/my body** type preaching to normal people --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141)._