Megalomania: Are Winners Bad People?

Content

• Megalomania: what is it?
• How can megalomania be recognized?
• What do people have against winners?
• Does victories really make you disagreeable?

Some people think they can solve Niagara Falls and do Formula 1 calculations. They just succeed in everything, they are the best in their department, run away from everyone in sports and seem to be able to assert themselves in every competition without much effort. Such Winners are found in all areas and they all have one thing in common: they are often not very popular with others. Anyone who constantly depends on everyone else is considered unsympathetic, not able to work in a team and can only work under Megalomania Suffer. But where does this overt dislike of winners come from, and why do we assume that winning has a negative impact on character? The answer is one Mixture of envy, admiration, prejudice and a spark of truth ...

Megalomania: what is it?

The term Megalomania is often used prematurely or even recklessly. Anyone who sets themselves big goals and believes they can achieve everything is immediately labeled as megalomaniac and even laughed at for it. True to the motto Let him dream calmly a lot of things are not really taken seriously at first and immediately classified as impossible or excessive.

True megalomania is closely related to classic self-deception. Basically, it's a perfect one distorted perception of one's own abilities, Strengths and weaknesses. Megalomaniacs are indeed adamant that they can do anything and defeat anyone. Your own abilities are so grossly overestimated that it can seem almost ridiculous to outsiders who judge more realistically and objectively.

Such extreme forms of megalomania are rarely encountered in reality. Is more common excessive self-confidencethat also expresses itself through the overestimated belief in one's own ability and does not seem very sympathetic to others. While megalomania is a deeply anchored attitude and usually shows itself in all situations in life, self-confidence can also be faked or limited to individual areas in which one considers oneself particularly capable.

In his megalomania is not bad per se. Boosting self-confidence can help you achieve your lofty goals or develop the stamina you need because you believe you can do it. In the best case scenario, megalomania actually leads to more success. But whether megalomania or an actual winner: You don't usually make a lot of friends with it.

How can megalomania be recognized?

Megalomania works arrogant, unsympathetic, aloof and arrogant. But these are only your own feelings and emotions that you associate with the behavior of the other. It is a little more difficult to name specific signs of megalomania.

It is still possible. On these three symptoms you can recognize megalomania:

• Wrong perception of one's own abilities. The feeling of being significantly better, smarter or stronger than you really are, objectively speaking, is the core symptom of megalomania. Realistic assessments of one's own abilities are no longer possible, what remains are whitewashing and exaggeration.
• No assumption of responsibility. If something doesn't work out, it's never the megalomaniac's fault. Other reasons and excuses can always be found so that one can continue to believe that one can do anything.
• Lack of insight into criticism. You can safely do without the opinion of others in megalomania. Criticism of one's own goals, actions or decisions is dismissed and simply ignored.

What do people have against winners?

We want to see the constant winners, the top performers and top performers fail. Is that mean and selfish? Yes, of course, but it is extremely good for the soul. But where does the resentment towards the winners come from? Guilt is often the self-image, a lack of self-confidence and a feeling of injustice, because most people do not belong to these high-flyers. You have to fight hard for everything, yourself prevail against difficulties.

So they sympathize with the little ones, the underdogswho seem to have little chance of asserting themselves against the overpowering winners. You should make it and put the winners in their place. We identify with thembecause we often feel the same way ourselves.

A Prime example that's why FC Bayern Munich is in the Bundesliga. For its fans, it is the best club in Germany, most of the others only perceive its appearance as arrogant, arrogant and conceited. A typical winner whose accomplishments cannot be denied. They are used to winning titles and beating other teams. Other football fans in Germany, on the other hand, seem to agree that they are fundamentally in favor of Bayern's opponents. So is it pure envy that leads to the view that winners are unsympathetic and arrogant people - or, in this case, clubs?

No, because even if envy plays a role, it comes The impression of the arrogant and conceited winner is no coincidence.

Does victories really make you disagreeable?

It has the same two causesthat winners and high-flyers have a bad reputation and are perceived by their fellow human beings as unsympathetic and arrogant. The first reason is that they are Stirring doubts and scratching your self-confidence. Why are they doing so well? Why doesn't it work for me? What do they do differently? The flawless picture of winners makes us aware that things are not running so flawlessly with us and that our self-image quickly becomes cracked. To protect our self-image, we try to badmouth the winners.

We find them arrogant and unsympathetic because it makes that easier for us maintain your own self-confidence. For the same reason, we would also like the classic winners to experience defeat. It shows that these too are not perfect and, like everyone else, have to contend with setbacks.

The second reason winners are perceived as arrogant is simple: Because they are. While this is generalized, it actually applies to many winners. Anyone who can constantly chalk up a sense of achievement automatically builds up greater self-confidence, transfers this to other areas and increasingly develops the mentality of being superior to others.

So is it true that Winners are bad peoplebecause they think they are better? No, this generalization would go too far. However, there is a great risk that winners will be theirs Successes go to your head and thus gamble away any sympathy. This risk is particularly high when there is no criticism and is only replaced by praise. In this case, not only is there a lack of aspiration to develop yourself further and to further develop your own performance. At the same time, the adulation leads to the fact that self-confidence rises into unimagined spheres and colleagues or fellow human beings are regarded as not competitive.