Maryanne Fisher, an associate professor in the department of psychology compares this to tabloids and celebrities. We, as a society are waiting to see them become human, to trip up and make a mistake. It also speaks about people in our lives that we may be envy of which are called “tall poppies” such as a friend, co- worker or leader.
Those in high positions, who stands out from the crowd in a positive and desirable way we tend to feel a sense of resentment towards them. It’s hard for us to figure out if someone is truly a friend or a user. So, it’s up to you to figure out if a genuine friend is indeed genuine.
My Question to you is:
Why do you think people envy others success?
17 comments:
I think that people envy others success mainly because they are jealous of that person, or because of their own insecurities and failures. For example, if a co-worker friend got a higher position in the job than you, then you may be envious because you didn't work as hard as him/her. Therefor, you lost the opportunity to become more successful than them, resulting in feeling insecure and jealous.
People envy others success because the want what they don't have. People love to succeed at everything and become jealous when they see someone else succeed instead. People pretend to be happy for the person who succeed but really despise them and wish they were them.
I think people envy others success because they're jealous. If my friend and I worked at the same place and he/she got promoted and I didn't, then of course I would envy him/her. The person now has something that I don't and I would want it. Deep down, everyone would probably want their friend to mess up so you could get the better job.
I think the reason why people envy other people success is because of jealousy. People often become jealous because another person's success is what they desire, however they do not have. As a result people envy others, a majority of the time people do not show this jealously, they may keep it a secret, and try to become "better" than the person that they envy.
I think that people envy others people success is because they want to be the most successful. Especially, if the person they envy is more successful with what they want, they get jealous because someone else has what they want. Jealousy plays a big role in envy. There are consequences of being jealous of someone, a lot of time people deny that they are jealous, and keep it a secret, or they try to be better than others. This can cause to many problems throughout the friendship. For example, if I worked with someone close to me, like my best friend, or my brother and we started at the same time and did the same thing and they got a raise before me, I would be jealous and try to do better than them to prove that I can get a raise too.
I think the reason why other people evy others success because that person would like to be just as good as them. These people are celebrities so it is unfortunate that they can be like them. They are rich an have lots of money, so that does show in thier attitude. Jealousy also plays a big role in this because alot of people envy others but try to find ways to cover it they keep it a secret. If someone was more successful than you and both of you had the same job of course someones gonna be jealous because there gonna wonder why they arent doing just as good. They probably wont say it out front but there actions will show it.
People are so envious on other people's success because they want to be as successful. Most people want to be successful in life so when someone else gets that chance and they dont they would get jealous. Poeple also get envious of people that have things that you personally dont have. for example, most guys would get jealous of another guy if he had the best girl in town.
Stephaniee
I think that people envy others peoples sucess because their jealous of their peers. They become jealous and wish they wouldve done that first. I think alot of friends see there frienships as compitition and that they have to do better than eachother or be better in general than others. So when one sucesseds the other person is jealous/envies because they didnt do it first.
I think that people envy others sucess is becouse they wish that their own lives could be better. Also I think that we like seeing other people fail becouse it makes ourselfs feel better seeing that other people are having problems and we are not. Finally I feel that we are very competative and are always trrying to surpass our friends and beet them out.
I think that the reason we are hopeful to see people more successful than us fail is out of pure jealousy. People are envious of others success because everyone wants what they don't have. They want to be successful themselves but feel resentful that the other person has it and they don't. They are just jealous that the other person has something that they don't, therefore they hope for the worst on them.
People envy others sucess out of both jealousy and greed. We all have a degree of jealousy and greed in ourselves whether we want to admit it or not. An example of this is when we see someone driving nice fancy new car while we are driving something that is a few years older. we envy them and their car and we want it. It is a part of greedy also. When we see that people have things better than what we have we wish we would have it. Trying to look at other things like what we have and what other people don't, will make us appreciate things much more. We envy other peoples success because they got something that we wanted.
I think people envy others because they're insecure about their own success. Someone in a higher position than them or someone with more money than them has worked harder, and they will want to be that person to improve their lives. People always want what they can't have, and when someone else has that thing they become angry and envious of that person.
I think that people look down on others to make themselves feel better. When someone fails, they dont feel so badley about themselves. It also really sad when people envy other people, that means they are just not secure or thankful for what they have. And people envy others success because they are jealous that they can't succedd in that way.
Rachael Thatcher
People envy others because they're jealous. They either are not secure with themselves or they want what somebody else has. Also, people have greed and just keep wanting things including everything that we cannot have ourselves.
Laura Scerrato said...
People envy others peoples sucess because they are jealous and want wat other people in their lives. They might try to strive for sucess and it may not turn out the best way. But being emvy of others isn't a good thing because you can always make the best out of your life if you really tryed hard.
I believe that people ewnvy others primarily because they do get satisfaction from being better than they are. Seeing ourselves succeed while everyone else fails makes us feel better about ourselves. It adds to our own assuredness and personal security.
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