Guilt for Success: What Happens When We Leave the Pack

When you have good things happen to you in life, do you feel guilty? Or when you get a promotion at work... do you get a strange feeling when you see your former workmates?

We can feel guilty for so many things, even the good stuff that happens (as if we need one more thing to feel guilty about!). In this blog post, Dr. Jamie Long - Ft. Lauderdale Psychologist tackles success guilt.

Guilt is our mind’s moral thermostat. It’s meant to click on when we’ve veered too far from our values and what’s important to us.

However, many of us have a glitch in this thermostat meaning that we might feel guilty when it’s unnecessary and unhelpful. An example of this is feeling guilt for our success.
This blog post shows us how to shed unhealthy guilt. Click the link below to read more and share with those who might benefit from reading.
You might be surprised to learn that this guilt has an evolutionary origin, meaning that we’re instinctively influenced to stay within the confines of our pack. The pack can be our family, our group of friends or our colleagues.

This blog post shows us how to shed unhealthy guilt.

lt. Click the link below to read more and share with those who might benefit from reading.

[RubenWhitter]

"Succeed like no one's watching" I love it!! 😋

[katrinas]

This was excellent! I love this!!! Thank you!!

[prophecyrevelations]

My dad, who is a millionaire used to say. There are always gonna be people who have more money than you always gonna be People who have less and your job is to be bothered by neither... Now that i'm wealthy myself I understand this. The only time I think about broke people is when i'm strategizing how NOT to become one of them AGAIN! I have zero use for them. These are facts. I could care less what others think & i feel no guilt! Most people who are not successful in life have only themselves to blame.

[wearegeeks]

My problem is different, I want my family and friends to be successful as me. But I feel frustrated because I see how much they struggle and they can't do it. So I fee guilty.

[ILOVEFeelGOOD]

Wow this was extremely helpful thanks so much for the clarity! 💜🌟⭐️✨️

[LA-hgtx]

You are just amazzziingg, thank you very much for this video ❤️

[biggiedetroit]

I love this! I will continue to watch for inspiration. Know one tells you about the dark side of success. I love it lol

[jmonie]

I'm working through this now. I definitely stand out from the rest especially among family members, as I should. However, I try to stay humble. I can never blend in, I'm 6'5, black American, etc. I have to squash this.

[ahdiexsha]

woah all my"family" wants to press me down for being successful

[ozo]

I disagree, with only the part that defines success. Success isn’t measured in how well you do vs others, it’s a word defining one meeting a personal goal. It’s not good to think your better than people just because you have more which equals happiness because those people who you are so called “more successful than” may measure their’s different.

[ErenJaegerTheRealOne]

FUCKING AWESOME VIDEO THANKS! THANK YOU!

[travellingcats]

Will we find a new pack of other people with the same level of success? I don't like the lone wolf thing.

[ldopa]

I have, through the infinite blessings of God, found a nice income. All around me I feel like I’m constantly reminded about how much better I have it than everyone else. Almost like I don’t deserve it. I feel shame and guilt and worry and anxiety over my income. I know it may be substantial now, but I’m worried I soon might be let go. I am in poor health and I worry it could affect my ability to make money in the future. I understand and agree with teachers and other public servants getting paid more. It just seems like all this criticism is misplaced when you have people like Elon Musk worth $200B when I don’t even make anywhere near that