If life doesn’t humble you then you’re not challenging yourself

 

How does one grow prideful, arrogant?

By thinking he’s doing (so) well

When does one think he’s doing well?

Usually one thinks he’s doing well AFTER he DID DO WELL, with something

And this sense of “doing well”, sense of contentment about oneself, it lingers

 

This sense of contentment lingers, and perhaps there is also pride, and it lingers, and perhaps there is also arrogance, and it lingers

How long does it linger?

Well you continue existing and doing things

You’re doing well or not so well

If you continue doing well then you continue believing that you’re well

And if you’re not doing so well any more?

 

When you’re not doing so well then now you have some contrary information to what you believed, about yourself “doing so well”

You can use that information to humble yourself

Or you can use that information to become even more conceited

You can reject this negative feedback — and by rejecting it you invalidate it — while further validating your sense of self-importance and ability — by now asserting that you’re somehow qualified to pass judgement on what constitutes valid criticism

Fucking ego

 

Now, how long can you play this game?

Not very long if you’re a serious doer

Serious doer who is serious about his outcomes eventually gets tired of the ego-trips and pride and the unending defensiveness and criticism and antagonism…

because all that nonsense is plain and simple unproductive

The serious doer is busy doing things

And now that he’s not doing so well — if he’s a serious doer serious about doing well — then he will step up, humble up, and do whatever it takes to improve

 

But most men are no serious doers

Most men get on their path — and then stay at it

Sometimes it even looks as though they’re moving — because a lot changes around them — a new car, new title, new toy, new hobby, new place, new story, new this new that,

But inside they’re doing the same shit every day,

It’s like when you’re watching all those different movies on the TV — you’re still just doing the same thing actually — sitting on a couch and watching fucking tv

Most men are no serious doers. They do the same things. Their outcomes are actually the same — just the packaging is different

The only DOING is doing NEW THINGS

Therefore the only serious doers are those that do NEW THINGS, new EXPERIMENTS, new ATTEMPTS, new heights

 

And if that’s what you’re doing — climbing new heights — then life is NOTHING BUT HUMBLING

You can’t just continue deluding yourself with aggrandizing stories. You can’t because the challenges you’re undertaking are humbling you completely. You’re struggling and you’re failing and you’re learning and perhaps you’re improving…

…All the while looking up — at others who did it.

You don’t have to feel inferior to them. You don’t have to feel inferior to anyone. Serious doers have no inferiority issues — they are too busy DOING thing — and deriving their sense of self-worth from the continuous ELEVATION

However it’s difficult to feel SUPERIOR to someone standing clearly above you. Even if it’s only one of many mountains that you’re climbing.

They stand above you. Perhaps with their help you’ll get there faster. And you’re a serious doer. You want to get there faster. You’ll listen. You’ll humble up.

 

 

You’ll humble up.

The poor self-satisfied little babies — they won’t.

Those that are unfortunate enough to be deprived of a good challenge — they are cursed. Great luck is cursed

Their only hope is to challenge themselves by themselves. And it’s hard without that extra push from life. It’s hard to find that motivation.

And it’s hard to humble up if everything you hitherto did is so pretty and satisfying and correct

 

If life doesn’t humble you — then you’re not challenging yourself enough

If you see an arrogant fool — show some compassion — likely life deprived him of it’s vital lessons.

Likewise the clueless fools and prideful fools and ignorant fools and vain fools

Inspire them to challenge themselves. Tell them they can still do more. Tell them that every day matters, every day is special, and EVERY DAY THEY CAN DO BETTER. A little bit better. A lot better.

And inspire yourself,

Challenge yourself

Let life humble you, if you need it

Don’t ever let life stop humbling you, stop challenging you

This is how you stay sharp

And this is how you stay alive

And this is how you feel alive