You also got me thinking that pride is a great thing if a person recognizes pride in accomplishment is relative. You may not care about my accomplishments, and that’s okay. Arrogance sneaks in when one assumes that everyone else is also impressed at my accomplishments. You all want to hear me drone on about them, right?Pride gets a bum wrap from Judeo Christian traditions. I'm proud of plenty of shit I've done. Why is that bad? I'm 100% entitled to be proud of my objectively impressive achievements.
I agree here.
My working model of arrogance in writing that was Steve Jobs. I don't think he was a braggart. But he definitely took credit for things he didn't do. And was a huge asshole. But he was responsible in part for some great things. Not to the degree that he'd have wanted you to believe. He believed his own hype and helped generate it to begin with. He assumed people were impressed with him. I'm not sure he reminded anyone of it. He seemed to have preferred yelling at people for no good reason because he was Steve fucking Jobs