I have a lot of pride in my self-awareness. Not just my self-awareness as an individual, but as a cyclist. I know I have a lot of work to do. I know I have the skills to do it. I know I have the determination to do it. I know I have the focus to do it. I know I have the drive to do it.
But in the end, pride is only a part of self-awareness. It’s only a part of our pride if we’re not aware of it. We must actively strive to become aware of our pride in a way that feels natural to us.
To become self-aware, we need to become aware of pride. We don’t have to just become aware of it though. We can actively work to become aware of it in a way that feels natural to us. We can say, “Hey, I know I have a lot of pride. Let’s do something about being proud of it.
In the video above, I showed you my new pride victory scooter. It’s a scooter that doesn’t just have the proudest victory of all time. It also has a pride drive button in the back that you can press to have the scooter run in a straight line for the next 10 seconds, or in a circle for 15. And this is where we need to be more self-aware.
If you want your pride to continue to go up, you need to know what to do when you want your pride to go down. So how do you do that? You need to realize that pride, like any other feeling, is always under pressure, so you can’t just give it a little push. If you want pride to remain at its apex, you have to build self-awareness into it.
I don’t want my pride to be at its apex, but I want it to be at its apex at the same time. This means that each time you decide to jump in with a new, better, more confident, self-aware action, you need to remind yourself that the thing you’re planning to do will always require you to use your strength and will with a little bit of help from a friend. This is as true of pride as anything else.
Pride really is the best way to build self-awareness. Without it, we would never get anywhere in life. Pride is the power to say, “I’m me, I’m not me.” It’s the power to say, “If I do this, I’ll be a better me,” and the power to say, “If I do that, I’ll be a better me.
Pride is a wonderful thing. It’s why we’re here, why we do this, why we do that. But pride is also why we do what we do.
We are all pride. We are all the people who do what we do because we have the ability to say, “I am me, and I am not me.” But pride is also what we do because we are. At the end of the day, we are all human. We have the ability to be more than what we think we are.
All of us.