In today’s fast pace life, confidence is considered the key to success, but when this confidence crosses the boundaries, it turns into pride – and it is from here that the path of collapse begins. Often people consider confidence and pride as synonymous with each other, but in reality there is a difference of land. If this difference is not understood, relationship, career and social image – everything can be at stake.
What is confidence?
Self -confidence is a positive virtue. It means trusting self -abilities. When a person believes in his work, decisions and skills and faces challenges without any nervousness, it is called confidence. The confidence inspires the person to move forward. This makes him mentally strong and does not allow him to give up even with repeated failures. A confident person knows to listen, is ready to learn and does not burn with the success of others. He focuses on improving himself and not by degrading others. His confidence also reflects in his humility.
What is pride?
Pride or ego is a negative quality. When someone has so much confidence in his abilities that he starts to despise others, do not give importance to someone’s advice and consider himself paramount – then he is not confident, but a pride. A arrogant person often assumes that no one can call him wrong, and he does not understand the need to learn from anyone, where confidence connects people, he removes pride. In pride, a person gets confused that he is unbeatable. Such people often become alone because they neither respect others nor receive respect from others.
Aspect confidence pride approach positive negative behavior humble arrogant, the desire to learn bitterly considers itself the best to learn the best of the best to learn the response, the response accepts criticism. Criticism considers criticism as an insult. Relations connect people.
Why is it necessary to understand this difference?
This difference is not just theory, but in the reality of life matters a lot. Many times people become so confident by getting success that they stop understanding the feelings and needs of others. They think that they know everything and the rest are inferior to them. It is from here that collapse begins. History is also a witness to this – characters like Ravana, Kaurava, Duryodhana, Hiranyakashyap fell due to their pride. At the same time, characters like Shri Ram, Arjuna and Hanuman adopted humility with confidence and became famous.
How to identify whether you are confident or arrogant?
Do you get angry after hearing criticism?
Do you always consider yourself right?
Do you ignore the advice of others?
Do you jealous of the success of others?
If the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then you may have crossed the limits of confidence and are moving towards pride.
What is the solution?
Immint-Ask yourself questions from time to time.
Keep the habit of learning – everyone can teach something.
Adopt feedback – Consider criticism as an opportunity to improve.
Be humble – Stay connected to the ground even after getting success.
Adopt attention and focus techniques – Yoga and meditation can prove to be helpful in controlling pride.
