This behavior also serves as a useful tool to get other people to fall into line. An arrogant person must be right at all costs. A mentally and emotionally healthy person may have a hard time with being wrong because it can hurt to be wrong. It can be embarrassing to make a mistake or appear foolish in front of other people. But for an arrogant person, making a mistake or accepting responsibility for their mistake is a threat to the private world they have crafted for themselves.
Mistakes cannot run counter to how great the arrogant person perceives themselves to be. A mistake is a suggestion that they are fallible. They usually react with anger, offense, or feigned disbelief.
They will refuse to talk about it, listen, or shift blame to someone else. They will usually step on anyone they can to make themselves look good. They may even use a favorable opportunity and circumstance to tear down other people involved.
They may do irrational things to impress others, often seeming desperate. Arrogant people may go to any extent to be in the good books of people they consider above themselves. Getting ignored or disapproved by these people may amount to humiliation. Be it winning at work, relationships, or even in arguments. Arrogant people care more about winning than about friendship. They will blame, criticize, insult, and scapegoat their competitors to get ahead.
Intellectual arrogance is the tendency in people to regard a belief as true simply because it is their own belief. People with intellectual arrogance identify with their beliefs. Their cherished beliefs contribute to their sense of self-worth.
So losing them would mean losing their identity and worthiness. And arrogant people dread nothing more. Jim, the employee I mentioned at the beginning of this article, was very hardworking. He did his work diligently and expected others, especially his seniors, to appreciate him for that. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'arrogant. Send us feedback. See more words from the same century.
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If you are, tone it down and look at the situation objectively, or in a non-biased way. Helpful 4 Not Helpful 0. If you do get involved with arrogant people, and are hurt by them, don't be afraid to seek help, professional or not. Don't let that info get out, though. Even though it's hard, don't hate arrogant people. They're usually trying to hide a painful past, an aspect of themselves they don't like, or have been seriously hurt by other people.
Remember that they could be hurt by the same things that have hurt you, but they're simply addressing their pain in the wrong unhealthy way.
Instead of resolving it, they're hiding it. This pain can express itself as arrogance, among many other things. Helpful 3 Not Helpful 2. Arrogant people also have a very hard time accepting apologies.
This is particularly true if you've questioned their fantasy land or have seriously questioned or have seemed to question their self-image. Helpful 2 Not Helpful 0. Always remember that there's a big difference between being assertive and being arrogant. Equally, some people are very anxious rather than arrogant, and it is anxiety that causes them to dominate a conversation or to try to prove themselves as good as you.
You can tell the difference by looking for empathy. An assertive or nervous person will check for your responses and even ask questions, while an arrogant person will ignore your needs and you completely and will continue to lack respect for your perspective. Helpful 7 Not Helpful 0. A summary of symptoms of arrogance include the following: intolerance of people different from themselves, inability to see different points of view, extremely harsh criticism of those they don't like, inability to form long-lasting relationships, and general narcissism.
Helpful 5 Not Helpful 0. Do they joke about people who shouldn't be joked about? Making fun of someone going through a hard time is a sign of wanting cheap laughs, and not caring about other people's emotions. Prideful people usually couldn't care less about how people feel, since they nearly always have a difficult time empathizing with others.
People going through a difficult time are often the target of jokes and insults by arrogant people. But these comments are made only when they're around people who they "know" will tolerate them, and not in the eye of the general public. When it comes to popularity contests, why are they popular? Is it because they treat their friends decently, or because they are simply "cool" to hang out with? Simply because someone's "cool" to be around doesn't mean that they treat people respectfully.
The main things that make people "cool" are completely superficial: they're either rich, attractive, athletic, have a good personality to those that fit their friendship criteria , or have a fake charm that soon dissembles if you anger them when alone. Arrogant people can have all or a mix of these and other traits.
When it comes to dealing with arrogant people, they nearly always have something to protect, either their self-image or their self-centred universe. If they get the impression that you're questioning either one, they will dislike you. Learn to live with that because it isn't about you at all; it's totally about their inability to control you. Helpful 3 Not Helpful 1. Arrogant people usually don't have truly good friends.
Remember this when you wish you were as "popular" as they are. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Keep in mind that there may be a psychological difficulty that may come across as arrogance seeming aloof or closed off or insecure with a false sense of self. In some cases, this could be bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or a social phobia.
It could be many things like a history of abuse or illness or bullying. Some people don't realize that their behavior marginalizes them from others and stops them from making friends. Be aware that while it is easy to call anyone "arrogant" as a wholesale generalization of a person's character, take into account your own mood, their mood, environmental conditions and life circumstances.
Sometimes what people do or say has nothing to do with you. Be careful when you assume they're acting in a certain way to specifically to upset or anger you. Be smarter than them. Helpful Not Helpful If they get in your face, leave or just ignore them and continue doing what you're doing.
What makes them madder than anything is ignoring them, giving into them is giving them the satisfaction of knowing they have gotten to you. They are simply trying to inflate their ego, and insulting or arguing with them will inflate it a lot. Leaving will too, but not nearly as much, all they want is attention, because they are insecure.
Depending on the situation, leaving might make them look stupid. They will hate you for this, but nobody wants to keep company with a total jerk! Helpful 4 Not Helpful 1. Don't pay lip service to their perfect world. This will not only help you stay true to yourself, but may help them to see things differently. Don't actually attack their fantasy land. Instead, say something like "I don't agree with you on that" or "I have different opinions on this". They might get angry, but these chances aren't as high as they would be if you questioned their self-centered universe outright.
Instead of saying "Maybe if you'd get over yourself, you'd see things for what they are", try saying "What makes you say that? No matter how much you might want to say something nasty to them, don't!
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