Ep71 Pride Poisons Everything

Father Len explains how pride can poison everything in life from relationships, to religion, to marriages, to organizations and companies. Highlights, Ideas, & Wisdom Pride and its effects are often so subtle as to be unrecognizable. The easiest way to manipulate people is to use their pride against them. Father Len shares the story of how an FBI agent uses the pride of criminals to induce them to confess their crimes. “The Truth Detector: an Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth” by Jack Schafer Prideful people are always defensive because their professed self-worth and inner strength is a façade. Father Len reveals how pride causes him to “freak out and become defensive and disrespectful” when people don’t respect his time. Pride is seductive and addicting. Pride is like an animal that must be fed over and over. Pride is like a freeway off ramp that takes you off the path to God. Father Len tells the sad story of how pride caused Alexander the Great to kill his best friend. Father Len explains how Satan uses our pride to tempt us to sin. “Little Shop of Horrors” Movie Prideful people have a constant need for outward signs to demonstrate that they’re okay which ironically leads them to feeling less and less okay inside. The prideful are always armored up and defensive. “The ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self is the mark of Hell.” – CS Lewis Prideful people have difficulty laughing at themselves because of their constant need for input on how great they are. Great leaders share two qualities: selflessness and humility. Leaders with excessive pride bring nothing but destruction to their companies and organizations. “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't” by Jim Collins Father Len’s litmus test for a spiritual person: one who believes that pride poisons everything. Irish shares the story of how he’s been unwittingly sucked into a corrosive game of pride by a prideful friend. Humility and vulnerability are the antidotes to pride.