Satisfaction with one’s work is the result of knowing what it is that one wanted to achieve and how the results reflect that objective.

Satisfaction with one’s result depends on one’s ability to acknowledge the circumstances under which these results have been achieved.

Taking pride in one’s work or one’s results may very well be the outcome of those satisfactions.

What’s much less useful is to search for the source of one’s pride by comparing oneself to others or by being celebrated by others for one’s victories. What this often connects with is a quest to be better than others or to win over others. It’s usually based on the hope of achieving a feeling of superiority. There is no use in superiority. It is even a trap, especially if the feeling of superiority serves as a replacement for predictability and a sense of being in control or safe. Once superiority is achieved in one domain, it becomes necessary to reconfirm that superiority. As a result, one becomes the chased one-

Superiority may exist in relationship to one’s craft. It never exists in a relationship with other beings. We’ll always need others to achieve our objectives. There is no way to always be superior.