What should I do to avoid being a narcissist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ironically, it\u2019s a question a true, full-blown narcissist (someone with narcissistic personality disorder) isn\u2019t likely to ask. But it\u2019s worth asking, because we all tend to see the world as revolving around ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(By the way, as we talked about on our show<\/a> recently, I\u2019d heard an informal description of narcissism as not only thinking of yourself as the center of the universe, but expecting others to see you that way, too.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n But back to the original question: How do I avoid becoming a narcissist, or acting like one? As always, we find that the Way of Jesus is\u2014surprise!\u2014incredibly healthy. Do these things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Pray for your enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Confess your sins one to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Be the one who serves, not one who expects to be served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Deliberately do good things without being seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Bless those who persecute you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every bit of Biblical wisdom is a way for us to truly thrive. We know the life of a narcissist is ultimately miserable, and obeying Jesus is the antithesis of narcissism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s the way to a better life. A restful one, at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His Way is great to study, but it\u2019s meant to be practiced. We can start right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brant Hansen What should I do to avoid being a narcissist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-encouragement","tag-inspiration"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 07:54:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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