It’s true. People who hate themselves worry they’ll become narcissists if they don’t, just like how workaholics fear becoming lazy if they relax a bit, or the overly-guilty fear becoming selfish. People must be over-estimating how much influence they can really have over their own personality. A workaholic will approximately never become a layabout. But you can change habits of thought much more easily.
In psychology it seems to be the case that some narcissists (grandiose narcissists) are internally confident, and other narcissists (vulnerable narcissists) are insecure. This seems to correlate with extroversion, with the more extroverted narcissists being the grandiose narcissists. Here is a study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01600/full
It’s true. People who hate themselves worry they’ll become narcissists if they don’t, just like how workaholics fear becoming lazy if they relax a bit, or the overly-guilty fear becoming selfish. People must be over-estimating how much influence they can really have over their own personality. A workaholic will approximately never become a layabout. But you can change habits of thought much more easily.
In psychology it seems to be the case that some narcissists (grandiose narcissists) are internally confident, and other narcissists (vulnerable narcissists) are insecure. This seems to correlate with extroversion, with the more extroverted narcissists being the grandiose narcissists. Here is a study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01600/full