First, you need to be honest with yourself about what you are feeling and why you are feeling it. The key is to identify and label your emotions as you experience them. Associating words with what you are feeling makes the emotion tangible and less mysterious. This helps you relax, figure out what’s behind your emotion, and move forward. If you try to stifle your emotions and tackle your work without addressing them, they will slowly eat away at you and impair your focus.


Pride is an emotional state deriving positive affect from the perceived value of a person or thing with which the subject has an intimate connection.


Pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g. that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others.


Pride is the love of one’s own excellence.


Pride is the specific feeling through which egoism manifest.


Pride: a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.


The word “secure” is derived from securus, meaning freedom from anxiety.


Aggression was due to frustration, which was described as an unpleasant emotion resulting from any interference with achieving a rewarding goal.