Power comes from self-confidence, standing your ground and taking charge of your own life - making it go how you want your life to go.
Power comes from self-confidence, standing your ground and taking charge of your own life - making it go how you want your life to go.
Well that's power over your own life, that's one form of power. But those notions of power and importance are very relative.
For some people power is money or power over other people or a high level job. Power makes them feel important but they're not necessarily important to their company/the people around them.
A low level job can be incredibly important i.e. image a city where waste collectors decided to go indefinitely on strike like it happened in Naples, Italy. The result was heap upon heap of garbage bags lying on the streets, disease carrying rats running wild, tourists fleeing/avoiding the city etc.
Those notions of power and importance are so intertwined and relative than it would be a fallacy for somebody to declare than (s)he has more power than somebody else unless a system of comparison is established, otherwise it's like trying to compare apples to oranges.
@Buttered Toast: yeah we're agreeing, your post inspired what I wrote after it.
Power and importance are two different things. You can be powerful without being important and vice versa. Though I suppose it depends on what you define as important.
I have power over my life and I consider myself important. Not because I feel powerful in my own way, but because it's my life.
I am the most powerful and important person in my life.
I am the most powerful and important person in my life.
In a way we all are the most important person of our lives because we could choose to end it right there and then.
Continuing on that path a murderer is the most important and powerful person in the life of his/her victim because (s)he ended it.
We're all just sacks of meat at the end of the day.
But what we value and believe separates us. Somewhere deep down inside you hate yourself and you know that you are a failure. I do not hate myself, and I know I am a success and in my mind... That makes me better than you.
And more over being the narcissist I am, your opinions in general are meaningless.
by DaddyBut what we value and believe separates us. Somewhere deep down inside you hate yourself and you know that you are a failure. I do not hate myself, and I know I am a success and in my mind... That makes me better than you.
That's your opinion. It's not fact.
I can tell you with absolute sincerity that I do not hate myself at all, nor am I a failure.
Your narcissism blinds your perception. You think everybody should be like you, but you really are just a sack of meat with low self-esteem that you try to compensate for by pretending to be an alpha male.
Every time I see your username, I get an urge to step on you.