Greed Power and Self Confidence
Hello and welcome back to Embrace The Wrestle. I’m glad you’re here!!
I’ve been thinking a lot about this crazy upside down we seem to be living in, and what we can do to make it better.
I don’t know about you, but I know I become disheartened, disappointed, discouraged by all of the discord, all of the blaming, and certainly all of the violence that is taking place. It seems that no matter where I look, in my local community, my state, the United States, and the world, there is ugliness that is pervasive. It all hurts my heart.
In everyday life people can be so cruel to one another…. Reading comments on FB, or on the Neighbor app… I don’t understand why people have to be so mean. And then if I look at the bigger picture of politics and politicians, I become even more disappointed and even ANGRY. GREED and POWER. That’s what I see.
Why “everyday people” have to be so mean to one another, or why people in powerful positions often see the need to hide the facts from us “everyday people” … I can become so incensed… do they really think we’re so stupid that we’re not able to see thru their lies??? I don’t care which side of the fence you’re looking at politically, they’re all lying to us (at least that’s my humble opinion).
GREED… wanting more and more, taking and not giving. POWER… being in control with selfish motives.
I may not understand all of the underpinnings of GREED and POWER, because I think there can be as many reasons for these types of behaviors/actions as there are people, but I do think there are some basic characteristics. underneath all of this.
On an Individual level I think we can become so concerned about being “right” that we become “threatened” by the possibility of being wrong, we become “threatened” by someone that holds a different opinion. It feels better if others are in agreement with us, group consensus can tell us that WE’RE RIGHT, and it’s COMFORTABLE knowing that others are in my camp.
But the problem with that comfort in “knowing that we’re right” can put BLINDERS on us…. We’re only able to see things in a certain way, through “our” lens of what’s right and wrong. It doesn’t leave any room for discussion, let alone questioning or re-examining our stance.
My thoughts have long been that the more CONFIDENCE a person has, the better their SELF-ESTEEM is the more comfortable that person is going to be with listening to a different viewpoint, to actually having a calm/civil discussion with someone who holds a different viewpoint. If I like the person I am and feel comfortable and CONFIDENT in my skin then I’m going to be able to allow myself to think outside of the “box” that I’ve created for myself, or perhaps that others’ have created for me. I believe that SELF CONFIDENCE allows us to be comfortable with those who disagree with us. The SELF-CONFIDENT person isn’t going to be Threatened by someone with a different opinion. The SELF-CONFIDENT person is going to welcome discussion and even questioning.
Perhaps the most significant part of being SELF CONFIDENT is that it allows us to be wrong without feeling that we’ve “lost face”, without losing faith in ourselves. But to the contrary, if I don’t have much SELF CONFIDENCE I’m going to be threatened by “being wrong”, I’m going to feel that I “lost face”, that others are judging me because I was wrong…. That’s going to feed into my feeling “less than”. None of us want to feel “less than” … so if that’s my fear I’m going to fight hard to prevent that from happening…. I’m going to tear the other person down first…. I’m going to make
Greed Power and Self Confidence
Hello and welcome back to Embrace The Wrestle. I’m glad you’re here!!
I’ve been thinking a lot about this crazy upside down we seem to be living in, and what we can do to make it better.
I don’t know about you, but I know I become disheartened, disappointed, discouraged by all of the discord, all of the blaming, and certainly all of the violence that is taking place. It seems that no matter where I look, in my local community, my state, the United States, and the world, there is ugliness that is pervasive. It all hurts my heart.
In everyday life people can be so cruel to one another…. Reading comments on FB, or on the Neighbor app… I don’t understand why people have to be so mean. And then if I look at the bigger picture of politics and politicians, I become even more disappointed and even ANGRY. GREED and POWER. That’s what I see.
Why “everyday people” have to be so mean to one another, or why people in powerful positions often see the need to hide the facts from us “everyday people” … I can become so incensed… do they really think we’re so stupid that we’re not able to see thru their lies??? I don’t care which side of the fence you’re looking at politically, they’re all lying to us (at least that’s my humble opinion).
GREED… wanting more and more, taking and not giving. POWER… being in control with selfish motives.
I may not understand all of the underpinnings of GREED and POWER, because I think there can be as many reasons for these types of behaviors/actions as there are people, but I do think there are some basic characteristics. underneath all of this.
On an Individual level I think we can become so concerned about being “right” that we become “threatened” by the possibility of being wrong, we become “threatened” by someone that holds a different opinion. It feels better if others are in agreement with us, group consensus can tell us that WE’RE RIGHT, and it’s COMFORTABLE knowing that others are in my camp.
But the problem with that comfort in “knowing that we’re right” can put BLINDERS on us…. We’re only able to see things in a certain way, through “our” lens of what’s right and wrong. It doesn’t leave any room for discussion, let alone questioning or re-examining our stance.
My thoughts have long been that the more CONFIDENCE a person has, the better their SELF-ESTEEM is the more comfortable that person is going to be with listening to a different viewpoint, to actually having a calm/civil discussion with someone who holds a different viewpoint. If I like the person I am and feel comfortable and CONFIDENT in my skin then I’m going to be able to allow myself to think outside of the “box” that I’ve created for myself, or perhaps that others’ have created for me. I believe that SELF CONFIDENCE allows us to be comfortable with those who disagree with us. The SELF-CONFIDENT person isn’t going to be Threatened by someone with a different opinion. The SELF-CONFIDENT person is going to welcome discussion and even questioning.
Perhaps the most significant part of being SELF CONFIDENT is that it allows us to be wrong without feeling that we’ve “lost face”, without losing faith in ourselves. But to the contrary, if I don’t have much SELF CONFIDENCE I’m going to be threatened by “being wrong”, I’m going to feel that I “lost face”, that others are judging me because I was wrong…. That’s going to feed into my feeling “less than”. None of us want to feel “less than” … so if that’s my fear I’m going to fight hard to prevent that from happening…. I’m going to tear the other person down first…. I’m going to make