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February-22-10

Arrogance

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Arrogance is to be overbearing to the extent that people around them disapprove of their behavior or actions. It is the offensive display of superiority or self-importance without any humility.

Arrogant behavior is when people who are confident starts to show off and think that nobody is having more results, profits and potential than their peers and not thinking that someday there will be somebody who is better than them in everything appearing in front of them.

Such people assume that they are superior towards others, by being insolently proud. If you know of such people, they will only hang around people who are weaker than themselves playing the big brother looking after their smaller siblings while taking instructions from their senior brother behind the scene who is in-charge of him. The senior lets him have all the face, ego and pride, a perfect example, gangsters, loan-sharks who hang around together.

In times of trouble, than you will see each of them running for their own lives and survival in the event of a bigger group of gangsters seek revenge on the weak, particular going after a smaller group of individuals.  In Singapore, you will never ever see gangsters on equal strengths pit off against one another in a fight, it is only in Hong Kong, Japan and other countries than will you see them in the newspapers when titans fight one another.

People who are arrogant simply just display the sign of actually being a coward who depends on a group of people to solve their own personal grievances via revenge. They socialize only among themselves, and is contented with the false protection they enjoy.

Police are the military titans who are not arrogant like gangsters; in fact they just observed them like the big brother, only coming into the picture when they start to stir trouble and problems making the police job difficult.  This is a standard observation from news press all over the world; they just sit by the side and observe which has more benefits than otherwise.

In business sense and perspective, it is easier and preferred to allow your competitors whom you know at the back of your hand to survive, knowing their strengths and weakness by hard than to silence all the competitors they know and give rooms to new competitors that they now have to work hard and gathering evidence against a newly formed group making their job more difficult. Rather than killing all opposition, why not just let them survive, and only show their power when such gangs get out of hand.

The competitors can sort of like be each others allies in one way or another, given the sufficient space to live, they will not clash, than the gangsters who the police know at the back of their hands will help the police reduce their workload by stopping any newly formed gangs from increasing their territory thus in a way, that’s how the society works.

Know who your allies are and who your enemies are. Mutual cooperation is needed even if there’s a conflict of interest for survival.

“War/Business is not risky, being unprepared for war/business is risky” – Robert T.Kiyosaki.

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