I'm becoming arrogant

[SayWhat]

Recently I'm becoming more and more arrogant towards others.

I used to be very friendly, always say hi and goodbye, holding doors, following the rules,... basically the nice guy. But lately this is changing, I must say I feel better about it, I feel more confident and show others their place.

Of course I know this is not good and I need to find a balance between being nice but not being overrun by others. Also, to be clear, this is not for the girls, it's just something I'm becoming because of others being impolite as well.

I don't really have a question about it, I will continue being like this. A question could be if some of you also had this experience?

 

[Dgwizdal]

Yep - a lot of this stuff will blow your ego sky high when you start seeing success learning how to manipulate social interactions and pulling girls. Be careful though - too much WILL backfire.

 

[Yewki]

I find it admirable when someone has self-respect, but also gives others the benefit of the doubt and takes the high road. Arrogance is caused from over inflated self-respect (importance) and expecting too much from people. If you walk around expecting everyone to treat you with an "eye for an eye" mentality, you become bitter and angry pretty quickly... oh look, he didn't hold the door open for me. He did me wrong, I gotta get him back. No, chill out and stop correlating your self worth so much with the actions of other people.

 

[SayWhat]

Yewki, I think that I respond to others actions in a sense of wanting revenge is because I can't handle that people think they're better than me (yes I'm aware of the hypocrisy, but it helps me cope with it)