Like Gengsian? These 4 Bad Effects For Yourself

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JAKARTA - It has become commonplace if people prefer to emphasize prestige. Prestige is a feeling of having high self-esteem, always positioning oneself more than others so that it seems arrogant, arrogant, and tends to look down on others.

People with high prestige will do everything they can to be seen as equal to the people above and refuse to look weak and looked down upon. If it is bad, he is willing to lie to save his pride.

The simplest example that can be found everyday is about life on social media. When you look at people who are considered cool, like influencers, for example, prestigious people will try to look like that. He began to imitate the influencer's lifestyle, from shopping for branded goods to eating at expensive restaurants. In fact, he was unable to live a lifestyle like that. Only for the sake of prestige, he acted like that.

Another example in the world of work. Usually there are prestigious people who feel they are the smartest by always telling great experiences and want to always be aligned with the top position. In fact, he is classified as underprivileged, but he always feels high and wants to be appreciated.

In some aspects, this character of prestige may have been experienced by everyone. However, if this trait develops in the long term, it can have a negative and self-defeating impact. The following are the disadvantages you will feel if you often prioritize prestige:

It's hard to develop yourself

People with high prestige usually feel the greatest so they are reluctant to do new learning things because they feel they already understand everything. You also always feel that work and achievements are always better than others. In fact, always learning from time to time is good for yourself because it makes you more developed. Because of prestige, you shut yourself off for your own development.

Miss an opportunity

At work, you reject a team with lower-level employees or new, inexperienced recruits, you also refuse various jobs because they are not well paid, and you are reluctant to make friends with people with less education. In fact, it could be that the opportunity will bring you better, but you refuse it for reasons that do not make sense.

Make it hard on yourself

Basically, there are many simple things that can make you happy. But because of dark eyes, you become ambitious to pursue things that are beyond your ability. If allowed to continue, this will eventually make it difficult and torture yourself. The things you used to enjoy become unattractive. The happiness you get becomes even more artificial because you always compare yourself with other people.

Thirst for recognition

In the end you become a person who is always hungry for recognition. You do things for others to see. You yourself are never satisfied and always want to be praised by others, but the way you do it can be a mistake. Over time, life becomes full of jealousy and envy, looks down on others more and more, and loses empathy.