shesus

I've been going through much self-reflection and improvement in the past several months. One thing that I worked on was figuring out the motivation for my actions and then working on it from there. I noticed that it generally came down to 2 types of trips.

ego trip: Informal something that a person does in order to boost his or her self-image

power trip: An action undertaken chiefly for the gratification associated with the exercise of power over another or others

Personally, I was doing many actions for ego trips that was shown through attention seeking and low self-esteem behaviors. Many people do this through emotional manipulation and don't even realize it.

As for power trips, I'm realizing that I don't always have to be right, it's ok not to know things, and I don't have to be in charge. Many people get involved in back and forth discussions that don't go anywhere and have no purpose other than to see who gets the last word.

I'm not sure if the general population's trips have gotten worse recently or just more visible, but the media screams it. Reality shows consist of people on ego and power trips. The internet also makes it easier for people to get their attention and power needs met. I see people use it everyday for power and attention.

So for discussion, what trips do you use, see, get annoyed by, or have worked on? Do you think that using these trips is a positive thing? Obviously, I'm more aware of it when it is used in the way I used it or it was used against me in the past. Are there other trips or motivations that you have stumbled across?

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