Borrowed Power
“those who make themselves look bigger on borrowed power are essentially living according to other people’s value systems—they are living other people’s lives”
If you make yourself feel superior by using your relationship to someone else, then you are using someone else’s value system, someone else’s life.
Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The Courage to Be Disliked.” Atria, 2018-05-08. Apple Books.