Jesus "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15).  The temptation for Jesus to submit to the crowd and exalt Himself must have been there but He didn't respond to it.  He came to do the Father's will and not His own (John 6:38).  He immediately left everyone and spent all night in prayer with His Father.  Prolonged prayer is a remedy for the temptation of pride and will work a God-type of humility in our life.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul is preaching a death to self.   Paul said he was dead through what Jesus did.  He experienced this death by simply counting on what had already happened through Jesus to be so (Romans 6:11).

There are people who have taken the "dying to self" doctrine to an extreme and, instead of being free of self, they are totally self-centered.  They constantly think of self.  It may be in all negative terms, but it is still self-centered.  A truly humble person is one who is Christ-centered.  Dying to self is not a hatred for self but rather a love of Jesus Christ more than self.

There are false religions that preach a denial of self.  We need to be not just dead to self, but alive to God.  A focus on the denial of self without taking on the power of Jesus Christ creates legalism.  True humility is not a changing of self, or a hatred of self, or our accomplishments.  It is simply an awareness that all we have and are is a gift of God.  Only a person who acknowledges God can operate in true humility.