Get To Know: Crab Mentality

People with crab mentality criticize, blame others, and feel jealousy towards success, attributing it to luck.

Example: If a colleague receives a promotion, someone with crab mentality might belittle their achievements by saying it was just luck rather than acknowledging their hard work.

Illustrates how someone with crab mentality may manipulate and criticize a friend's success instead of being supportive.

Example: Instead of cheering on a friend's business success, a person with crab mentality might spread rumors or criticize their strategies to bring them down.

Belief that others can't be more successful, tendency to criticize, jealousy towards success, negative presumptions, and excessive competitiveness.

Example: Someone with crab mentality might assume a coworker's successful project is solely due to favoritism rather than recognizing their skills and efforts.

Emotional motivation: Driven by the urge to feel better about oneself, with a misconception that others' gains come at their expense.

Example: A person with crab mentality may downplay a friend's fitness achievement, feeling threatened and suggesting it was achieved through shortcuts, not hard work.

Projecting crab mentality onto others due to past experiences of feeling invalidated for success.

Example: If someone faced criticism for their achievements in the past, they might adopt crab mentality, projecting negativity onto others' accomplishments.

Crab mentality is described as a hostile action toward those perceived as better. The article encourages viewing others' success as motivation for personal progress, rather than hindering each other's success!