Humiliation is GOOD
Summary
A writer on the train tells Kareem that humiliation is the most important human emotion. It keeps you grounded. Prevents you from taking yourself too seriously. And it's fertile ground for essays, which apparently need that tiny seed of embarrassment to grow. When pressed for her most humiliating moment of the week, she confesses to accidentally spitting gum onto a Fashion Week runway and getting it stuck under her boot while trying to catch it. As for her most humiliating moment ever? That's impossible to quantify, though she did pee her pants last week and thought it was pretty cool.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? I think humiliation is good for you. 100% agree. Oh yeah, yeah. Why do you say so?
Keeps you grounded. I think the worst thing that you can do for yourself is take yourself too seriously. And I'm a writer, what else would I write about? That's every—every essay is based on some tiny seed of embarrassment. I think that's the most important human emotion. What's your most humiliating moment of the week?
I can't say. Say it. Okay, okay, okay. It was recently Fashion Week, and I went to a show, and I accidentally spit out a piece of gum onto the runway. And as it was falling, I went like this, and it was stuck underneath my boot. I can't believe I— What's the most humiliating moment of your life?
You know, it's impossible to quantify. Did you pee in your pants in my life? At one point, you could—that bad? No, no. I peed my pants last week, but I didn't think it was humiliation. I actually thought it was pretty cool.