Aggressive behaviors

Being aggressive doesn't necessarily mean physically exerting violence on others: aggressiveness encompasses a range of stances and ways of thinking that commonly involve violating the rights of others and disregarding their feelings.

Recognizing one's own aggressiveness isn't easy: often, the aggressive person manages to get what they want through arrogance. Aggressive individuals tend to clash with others who are also aggressive and end up surrounding themselves with passive people.

In reality, the aggressive person pays the long-term consequences of their behavior: they will ultimately surround themselves with more passive individuals the more aggressive they are. Constantly considering others incompetent and wanting to bend them to their desires leads to an egocentric alignment. Being surrounded by depersonalized individuals who always say "yes, sir" isn't fulfilling, yet the aggressive person precisely aims for this.

Aggressive behaviors include:

1. Disregarding the rights of others

2. Always believing they are right

3. Blaming others for their own mistakes and discomfort

4. Overrating themselves

5. Not accepting others' opinions

6. Inflexibility in their opinions even in the face of evidence

7. Expecting others to always act according to their desires

8. Blaming others, treating them as inferior

9. Feeling entitled to judge everything and everyone

10. Inability to start from others' operational level

Aggressive individuals need to learn to distinguish between their opinions and objective reality: things aren't inherently "good/bad," they are perceived as such by the person judging them. It's a right to judge for ourselves, but not for others because we shouldn't consider our judgments as universal laws.

Saying "I like/don't like" is assertive.

Saying "it's good/it's not good" is aggressive.