The Temptation Of Pride And Self-Aggrandizement - Deepstash

The Temptation Of Pride And Self-Aggrandizement

Still, the act of writing poses a predicament for anyone who recognizes the temptations of pride and self-aggrandizement. We simultaneously desire to attract recognition and seek to avoid it. We want to engage an audience, yet we see that approbation flatters our egos and that criticism is painful. Although wiser people tell us not to read comments, with today's technology, readers’ responses are exceedingly difficult to evade. And try as we might to ignore them, the words of critics can still wound us.

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

“[T]hese,” John Stuart Mill declared in 1836, “are the inevitable fruits of immense competition; of a state of society where any voice, not pitched in an exaggerated key, is lost in the hubbub.” Success “in so crowded a field, depends not upon what a person is, but upon what he seems.” Who are we when we write? And, are we saying something or just screaming?

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