I was raised to see pride as borderline sacred (by my admittedly arrogant and emotionally abusive mother, who I drew a lot of behavior cues from), but all throughout my preteen years I realized I was extremely arrogant and my overconfidence would often get me in trouble. Over time as things in life went wrong I would become ashamed I wasn’t reaching what I felt was my potential. This started maybe five years ago. I’m now in a complicated loop of fearing failure, and feeling simultaneously like I’m powerless and able to easily surpass god. I still see my problem as one of curing the inflation of my bigass head, but I don’t recall ever seeing advice geared towards people tired of being arrogant. I suppose my question is how can one become humble? Or is my focus in the right direction at all?