If you’re truly want anivus, understand how lacking you are from your true potential. How small and insignificant you are compared or when in the presence of the creator. You’d feel foolish by their praising you, even by their calling you an anav. And that feeling is true anivus.
The mashal to understand this, I once hear (forgot where/who) goes like this:
There was once this spittle of a village who’s inhabitants were all boors, all, no a single one could read the printed word. One day a farmer from the next village chanced by, he actually knew how to read. He started showing these folks when to Holidays were, a bit of prayer etc. Slowly he moved in and became the official “Rabbi”. So it went for many a year, this “Rabbi” (of a farmer) was accorded great honor, and he used to “teach” his crowd how to read siddur, read a calendar etc.
One day a world renowned (real) Rabbi passed through this village. This town Rabbi, who knew his own worth, came out to greet this visiting giant, while these boors ignored him and continued heaping praise on their “Rabbi”.
How this “Rabbi” wished to sink into the ground. The very praise they sang humiliated and mortified him so!!!
That is how a true anav should feel when one is praised.