You boast most of the time, invoking your arrogance and personal sense of extreme pride. You make people around you uncomfortable with your proud and self-indulging behavior. The initiator of this is your ego, a tendency to self-importance that if not observed, it will build up to extremity, where the term of “ the person is full of ego ” comes into place.
Ego has been part of a term, used in personality, with reference to a psychological research lead by Sigmund Freud. Is ego is good or bad? Mostly said, it depends on how it is referred to. For example, a good part of the ego may mean, “ This person needs to boost his ego so that he will be more confident ”. A negative ego may be indicated as, “ This person has too much ego that makes us all feel so uncomfortable ”.
Is ego similar to self-confidence? No, it is not. Ego takes effect more to your self-interest, where else self-confidence relates to your instinctive trust in your personal ability. In my humble opinion, you do not need ego to dictate your life. Constructing your self-confidence is all possible without the need to have ego as an influencer.
How does all this tie up to arrogance? When your self-interest within you grows too much. You seem to increase your compulsion in believing your superiority over others and it becomes overbearing. You had diverted your self-confidence into a nature of ignorance, a compulsive behavior that says, your opinion is appropriately better than others. You also deny others to express their thoughts in return. Even if you do give an avenue for someone to share their thoughts, you will immediately have an alternative answer, to say that you are right and an affirmative one. Unfortunately, it only pleases you.
Arrogance is a negative virus.
Maximus @ MaximusPrimo.com
Arrogance creeps within you, giving you an indication that you are all feeling better, but over time, you are becoming ill. You have mutated to someone that you are not, and you became too comfortable with this new feeling of extreme pride. It is derived from your self-interest, that you can no longer remove it from your body and mind. It becomes ‘cancerous to your attitude’, at its acute state.
Realize that arrogance will lead you to ashtray. You will begin to make wrong decisions, misguided and in the long process, destroying your ability to see right and wrong. In simple terms, arrogance is detrimental.
In creating your direction towards Positive Attitude, you will also be aware that you are removing your bad habits. It triggers of your sense to realize and question yourself, if you are emulating the nature of being arrogant. Be conscious of this. Do not be confused of being positive in attitude, as being similar to having negative ego crept in your thoughts and building up your arrogance instead.
Meditation helps to lead you away from being arrogant. When you begin to calibrate yourself from within, you body and mind will invoke your self-realization and senses. When you begin to have a clearer mind, you will have a better disposition of yourself in the real world.
What I need is for you to believe in yourself, to have Positive Attitude developed within you.
Maximus @ MaximusPrimo.com