To give an example, there are plenty of people who lack the risk tolerance to start a business. Their low risk tolerance rules out a great number of opportunities. Pride makes us self-conscious. When we think so highly of ourselves, we tend to protect our self-assigned status rather than strive for something better. Pride forces us to focus on the downside instead of the upside, no matter how significant. The prideful know they have a long way to fall, and that their perch is dry-rotted prideful people are birds?
The truth is that none of us are ever at the top, and there is no fall too great to overcome, learn from, and leverage to get higher than ever before.
The spice of life is primarily cinnamon, after which comes learning and growing from trial and error. Because of the poisonous mindset of a prideful mind — prideful people are, ironically, the most likely ones to be stuck in mediocrity and image management.
A pride contest has no winner because nobody likes the winner. Selfish pride is especially destructive to relationships. As a result, many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact LGBT people have had in the world. Two presidents of the United States have officially declared a pride month. Humility has the opposite effect. Many relationship issues are caused by pride. It differs from joy and happiness in that these emotions do not require the approval of others to be experienced.
Letting someone ahead of you in line when you see they are in a hurry is an act of humility. Cleaning the bathroom of your office, even though you own the company, is an example of humility.
For example, most researchers suggest that humble people have an accurate view of themselves, acknowledge their mistakes and limitations, are open to other viewpoints and ideas, keep their accomplishments and abilities in perspective, have a low self-focus, and appreciate the value of all things, including other people …. Legalism is when a really religious sounding person or people crave for their SELF to be respected and praised through power and control.
They force their own questionable or easily debatable standards and rules on their followers. When people obey them, it makes their SELF feel good. This form of Pride has kept more people away from God than maybe any other.
I know so many people raised in legalistic homes who now, as adults, mock Christians and try to keep people from God. So they cloak it in religious churchy language and weak and inconsistent biblical justifications. God as our leader. Wives against their husbands; children against their parents; employees against their bosses; citizens against their government.
They believe they can make better decisions than the leader in their lives. Prideful people lie. Prideful people are serve or work obsessed, addicted to power and control in a compulsive drive to gain approval and public recognition of success.
They believe that their SELF or image, the prestige and status and general emotional well-being they get from being praised for their work or service, is so much more important than the SELF or emotional well-being of their spouse and kids. Prideful people feel and believe that value is added to their SELF because of their status or accomplishments. They feel that they are worth more by doing or appearing a certain way. Here is a great psychobabble article about why low self esteem and depression is a huge sign of pride.
Humility is seeing your SELF the way it actually is. Knowing what is true about who you are. Not believing what is accurate and true. When the prince of a kingdom chooses a princess from a neighboring kingdom to be his bride, everybody is happy for her.
Nobody is envious. If the prince chooses a local girl from his kingdom to be his bride, then envy is strong from all of the other local girls in the kingdom. It is especially hard on them when someone who is their equal rises above them economically or in social standing.
Prideful people try to impress with their success by showing us their possessions. Prideful people are not generous with their money. They are SELF-ish and would rather use their money to buy things that they feel validate their untrue feelings of who they are.
There are a lot of legitimate medical and traumatic reasons for depression. Pride is a major cause of depression for millions of people. We can be wired as introverts purposefully by God from birth. Arrogance, Immodesty, Narcissism, Pomposity, Pride, Self-Importance, Self-Love, Self-regard, smugness, swagger, self-admiration, self-exaltation, swelled head, conceited, display, pretension, self-worship, show, ostentation,. Dignity is a good thing. But this is not:. Pride can even distort our mind to think that even our junk is good and right.
I really hope this list and explanation has helped you understand what pride really looks like and has given you a desire to not have it in your life. The Secretly Prideful Person. How They Define Pride. Pride of Spirituality. I tell you the truth, they have their reward. Give mini-sermonettes, remind the audience of the week's schedule, etc. Say, "I'll pray for that" when they absolutely have no intention of praying for it. But it sounds spiritual for sure. Pride of Knowledge.
You were going to say Will you forgive me? Pride of Power. So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. They like to spell BOSS backwards. Health and wealth televangelists, those who prey on the elderly's money etc.
Self-centered, ego-centric, self-absorbed Feel powerful when people have to wait on them. I often wonder if people who drive slow in the fast lane and won't let people pass are just jerks or just ignorant Regularly make everyone wait on them to get to the meeting so they can start Inconsiderate.
Pride of Appearance. Super Important. Three Pride Illustrations. Fighter in the Ring. Pride Monster. Two Dogs. Practice asking people 5 questions. Maybe these. How long have you lived here? Why did you move here? What do you do? How did you get interested in that? Share your pride struggles with people close to you and ask them to pray for you and to tell you when they see your signs of pride. How Extreme Pride Slips In. How Humility Happens to Hard People.
Essential Oils and Man Boobs I recently read a study to my family that said Lavender and Tea Tree Oil probably cause man boobs to grow on prepubescent boys. Appearing Really Spiritual. Rejection of Material Possessions. Brag about how few possessions they have or how humbly they live so that people will recognize they are not materialistic and therefore very spiritual.
Embarrassed or make excuses about owning nice things or big houses. Churchy Language and Prayers. Spiritualize everything. Only God can do that. Pride makes us believe we are always right. In one of her teachings , the American Buddhist explains the different flavors that pride takes. Each has self-indulgent nuances. But, they all leave a bitter aftertaste. The first type of pride is the most common. We compare ourselves to others in terms of education, social standing, health, beauty, physical attributes, or other aspects.
This happens when we, in fact, are better than somebody else in one of those aspects. And look down on them. We see others as competitors that we must defeat. Great pride is a culture view, especially in America. They associate getting recognition to beating someone else. Even when we go for a run or bike ride, we need stats to prove that we are better.
All we care is bragging about our superior performance, not the joy of exercising. But, praise their kids when they beat others. Children learn that recognition matters more than having joy.
Instead of accepting the fact, we look for something that will make us proud. You focus on another quality that will help overcome your weakness. One that will make you feel morally superior. You defeat the other person by attacking their virtues.
You turn one experience into something that makes you feel the king of the world. Like when you break a rule or do something that makes you feel unique. But we think we do. They think they are proficient at something but are clueless. This is when we feel proud of our weaknesses. We make ourselves insignificant by putting ourselves down. We make a big deal of small flaws to feel at the center of the world.
We become proud of being a victim. Think of those who lie in the tax declaration or frame someone else at work for a mistake they did. Distorted pride is when our morality is full of holes, but we feel superior because we got away with it. Acknowledge the difference between feeling proud and being proud. The first is the joy of a job well done.
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