How can you react to someone else's success? - Be inspired - Devalue and destroy Why does everyone have their own reaction? After all, it’s rational to be inspired by someone else’s success. And it doesn’t matter whether this success is relevant to you. For example, play the guitar and be inspired by professional musicians. Or work as a doctor and be inspired by the work ability of an entrepreneur. But someone wants to destroy. Devalue someone who attracts attention. Where does this envy come from? What is the difference? What clicks differently in your head? Someone else’s example can include (or, as the Jungians say, constellate) the Hero archetype. A successful person (tm) is endowed with archetypal projections. A striking example is the uncritical assessment of famous people - artists, politicians, entrepreneurs. In general, they are seen as Heroes with a capital H. But which side of the Hero the beholder sees depends not so much on who he is looking at, but on the inner content of the beholder. The shadow (conditionally negative) side of the Hero archetype is a criminal and a swindler who uses his skills for personal gain. He doesn't care about other people's interests at all. Envy is born when one’s own negative contents and impulses are projected onto the Hero - unethicality, malignant egoism. And since it is difficult to admit alone with yourself that you have unethicality and malignant egoism, the easiest way is to endow this with Another - that same Hero. Since the Other-Hero is so bad, unethical, selfish, and drinks the blood of the working people, then it is reasonable to devalue him and want to destroy him. A person who is full of unconscious shadow contents will never see in the classic entrepreneur-baker Adam Smith someone who can do good, not thinking about others. He will only get angry and devalue the baker’s work and grumble that he “lives on unearned income.” In general, the good old projection mechanism works. Heroic myths were created in order to explore your inner world, discover it, and enrich it. Meeting with a Hero is a chance to ask useful questions to yourself: what are the challenges facing me? What am I capable of? what I can? It would be good if for many of us the example of others gave rise to inspiration, and not depreciation and destruction.