Excerpt from a personal-development podcast episode where the speaker distinguishes healthy pride from corrosive pride, warns that excessive pride blinds people and harms others, references the biblical phrase 'pride comes before the fall,' and emphasizes humility and appropriate self-recognition as part of personal growth.
Well, there's a difference between being proud and pride. Like, they sound like they're the same words, but they're not. Pride is like an elevated, unhealthy, potentially corrosive to those around you. It can be a turn off. And again, one of the things that when I think about this, right, I did something that I'm proud of. I go tell 100 people, it kind of turned into pride. And when I say I tell 100 people, I don't mean I'm telling like a dope story from stage. I mean I'm like a. Look at me, I'm the guy. Like that kind of thing. I also think when I think about the word pride, and I think why the Bible talks about, you know, pride comes before the fall, is that you've now put your blinders on, you have lost all social awareness. You've lost being able to see the direction that you're heading and probably potentially dragging others into. When I do something good, I'm allowed to be proud of that. I'm proud of myself for being the person who did that. I'm proud of, you know, those who actually maybe made the change based on things that happened. I'm just proud of the situation in general, that something or someone believed in me enough to know that we could get the job done. And you can take that as worldly or as spiritually as you want.
