Reading in my new favorite book again this morning in a section on entitlement and a couple things hit me. #1 how entitled I have seen myself. #2 how Success Books and "Law of Attraction" fed into that.
There is someone I worked with who I hated because I saw him as someone that felt like he deserved success and position just because he was entitled to it, not because he earned it so it was kind of a shock to look in a mirror with the help of this book and see a lot of that in me too! I mean how many times have I started something and not finished because things weren't easy enough for me, that's entitlement! From the book: "Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce itself. People who feel entitled view every occurrence in their life as either an affirmation of or a threat to, their own greatness. If something good happens to them, it's because of some amazing feat they accomplished. If something bad happens to them, it's because somebody is jealous and trying to bring them down a notch. Entitlement is impervious. People who are entitled delude themselves into whatever feeds their sense of superiority. They keep their mental facade standing at all costs," For decades I followed Law of Attraction, name it and claim it type beliefs which promoted ideas like all you had to do to achieve great success was just think it. Now I look back at my life and wonder how much damage I have done to myself and others with that kind of delusional thinking. And I don't mean that positive thinking is all bad, it's good to have a positive perspective on things, but life is also hard, and all the positive thoughts in the world ain't going to change that. Sometimes, often, you have to work hard, fail, get up and go at it again. Just thinking does not make it so.
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