[bug: pride] Excessive self-importance leads to systemic blindness and repeated failure

[AryDaniel]

PRIDE

Pride shows up as an exaggerated sense of self-worth that disrupts your decision-making process and limits your ability to learn and be corrected by others. When pride is involved in a person's or group’s actions, they tend to over-valuate their own capabilities, disregard feedback from others, and disregard evidence that opposes their sense of self

This pattern of behaviour frequently leads to subpar decision-making and refusal to react to corrective feedback, therefore repeated failures happen for the same reason across personal relationships, social relationships, and in the political arena. In general, pride can masquerade itself as a character trait of strength or conviction and therefore is very hard for prideful individuals or groups to be able to see it in themselves

[AryDaniel]

The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.

• Friedrich Nietzsche

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

• Socrates

The root of suffering is attachment

• Buddha