Why are so many people jealous of those who are high achievers?

Question

Why do people constantly get jealous when they see people with things that they want? I kind of know the answer to this question but I want to know what other people think of this. I have gone through this many times, but have any other people experienced this with people you have know, met, or are use to be friends with?

Answer 1

Human nature is the most lame excuses given by all jealouses pple. imao.

Answer 2

Most high achievers have cut off their right leg to get there, so they tend to be smug and self-righteous (as if EVERYBODY was supposed to DEFORM themselves in order to be okay.) So when normal people look at achievers as annoying freaks it is only because they ARE.

Answer 3

...well, because bill gates is the richest man in american instead of me...that's why...

Answer 4

The jealously comes from resenting those people they see as the achievers they wish they could be.  They don't see themselves as achievers themselves, and doubt is what really creates problems...a false perspective that they themselves cannot be achievers in something. I know I have been guilty of this.  It's nice when I learn that it's really ridiculous to compare myself with others.  I cannot be just like another person.  Nobody ought to think that we ever could.  We all have something unique that would make a difference for others.  But that doubt first has to be eliminated in order to discover that.

Answer 5

this is an easy one. people suffer from whats called the sour grapes syndrom. im not sure if your familiar with the tale. but the fox see's grapes wants them, cant reach them, so upon realizing this he says "i'll bet they're sour anyway"  and that sums us up. we cant be them so their smug and arrogant. we cant have their things so we say they dont deserve them and that their tacky. thats just human nature i guess.

Answer 6

Because it's so much easier to be jealous of people who have worked hard and succeeded than to actually work hard and succeed yourself. Being a person who hopes to be a "high achiever" one day, I've gone through it multiple times, too.

It's kind of a double-edged sword, in some ways, though. Being someone who wants to be a high achiever, it's usually hard for me not to be jealous of others who will clearly be a higher achiever than I will, for whatever reason.

Answer 7

I believe there are two kinds of high achievers...arrogant ones and modest ones...the arrogant ones think people are jealous of them because they feel superior and are driven by exterior forces(they will talk about their accomplishments frequently)...

The modest ones do it for themselves and nobody else even realizes their accomplishments...

At least that is what I've noticed in my students.

Answer 8

It's human nature.

I guess it's the reality of the fact that there are those who are better than us at what we do out there that frightens us or shakes us up. How well we take it is up to the individual.