Arrogance - The Fatal Enemy

When I hear renowned people speaking or writing, they always invariably talk about humility.

To be modest and accept mistakes and learn from each other. I certainly believe we all have learned the same in our childhood through our teachers, parents and now our superiors and mentors.

However, do we practice this obvious art?

Habitually all of us keep belittling others in following ways; a simple way is by checking if you are falling in these three criteria’s.

If we realize our mistakes we can always adjust our thoughts, words and actions in positive direction.

1.“Don’t agree your view, you are too new “

It could be when a new person joins fresh from college or any other new joiner with experience.

We do not like to accept that someone can run the show better; every organisation requires dearth of fresh ideas, however due to these employees who try to subordinate every new idea they remain either unsaid or critically reviewed.

As we age, we learn to be more humble or at least it said we gradually learn to be modest in our actions and words, but many a time’s seniors at work use age on their advantage to ridicule others for their ideas or actions.

To save yourself from this arrogance constantly check your behavior and recognize the value of others.

2. “I am too pretty, smart and witty…..you are stupid, ugly or fat… “O” I Pity”

We all are endowed with some or the other unique characteristics or features which distinguishes us from one another. Some people are born rich or belong to famous families or have relatives at big ranks, or are too smart or beautiful.

This abundance is god gifted, mainly inherited, and stands zero value in advocating supremacy over others, but very often people tend to use it otherwise.

To be able to overcome this bias have gratitude for the positives you have and try to identify the same in others.

3. “Sycophancy is a Vice, which affects the Nice”

Then there are different category of people who can do sweet talk with those in power and then tend to use this over others.

They become the blue eyed resources who even if not having any skills or talent or always valued over and above others. They can never hear or understand voice of any other resources in the team and play their best so that person in power also cannot understand the same.

Adulation to win heart of a person is very short term plan of success, your senior can easily move from current job, at the end of the day your skills count and able to seek guidance and help from others is inevitable; then why shoulder on this temporary phase?

These constant conflicts hamper the peace of environment and sabotages the good work, which could come otherwise.

As the only class of living beings who can use their intelligence and adapt civilization we all feel privileged and hence proud of ourselves. However, using it against others and undermining them be being arrogant and rude makes us no less than animals.

Nobody was born to please other individual so why not understand each life and value them as we value our own.

As already corporate world is difficult than why make it worse.

Just another set of views to caution our behavior and constantly align ourselves to be on the right path.

Anjali Nagdev