My friend says my self-deprecating humor (telling everyone I’m a felon, that I trade my services for vegie macs) lowers my esteem in other’s eyes and he’s recommending I type up a letter of recommendation for myself that he’ll sign and I’ll carry around with me and hand out.
Chaim Amalek: Why deprecate yourself when by conventional standards, you don’t have much value to begin with? Successful people boast, not self-deprecate. Copy them, even if you have to fake it.
How much self deprecation goes on a communal Jewish awards dinners? Or at your orthodox shul? This is an affectation that should be left to the goyim.
I want you to write a list of ten things at which you are better than the average Mexican.
