Difference Between Balanced and Narcissist Personality

You yourself can either be your biggest asset or biggest enemy. Having the wrong mindset and not believing in yourself will create barriers from moving forward. Break through your own thoughts and become who you know you can be.

We can learn from the mistakes of others.

When most people make errors, they are willing to learn from their mistakes.

Narcissists don’t learn from their mistakes because they don’t think they make any.

Those with narcissistic personality traits fail to acknowledge when they make mistakes and are thus unable to learn from errors they have made.

When most people find that their actions have resulted in an undesirable outcome, they tend to rethink their decisions and ask, “What should I have done differently to avoid this outcome?”

When narcissists face the same situation, however, their refrain is, “No one could have seen this coming!”

In refusing to acknowledge that they have made a mistake, narcissists fail to learn from those mistakes.

Source: Oregon State University

Narcissistic Personality Traits:

Feeling like they are more important than others.A need to be praised or noticed for the things they do.

Exaggerating what they have accomplished.

Feeling like they are better than other people.

Doing whatever it takes to get what they want.

Needing to have the best of everything.

Butting into conversations.

Unable to notice other people’s feelings.

Jealous of people and things that they have.

Unable to control emotions.

Unable in handling stress.

The traits are:

Feels important, like they are better than others

Obsessed about having money, success, or the perfect life

[Obsessed - unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in or worried about something.]

Thinking they are different and only certain people could understand them.

A need to be revered [highly respected or admired].

Believe that they need to be treated a certain way.

Will step on others to get what they want.

Unable to consider how others feel.

Feel others are jealous of them and are jealous of others.

Inflated (sky-high, excessive) attitude towards themselves.