Envy & Jealousy: How to Stop Feeling Envious of Others

Envy is the feeling of the displeasure produced by the advantage or prosperity of others. The person we envy has personal attributes (such as beauty, patience, or intelligence), possessions (such as a car, a house), or positions (like being the boss) that we lack but desire. We envy both what other people are and what they have.

Envy is wanting to destroy what someone else has. Not just wanting it for yourself, but wanting other people not to have it. It’s a deep-rooted issue, where you are very, very resentful of another person’s well-being – whether that be their looks, their position or the car they have. It is silent, destructive, and pure malice.

The emotion of envy is closely related with:

• Jealousy

• Despair at others’ advantages

• Grudge

• Destructive attacks and meanness

• Dissatisfaction and hostility

• Rivalry and Resentment

• Covetousness

• Spiteful rage and criticism

• Preoccupation with injustice

• Unfair distributions of wealth

Most people are likely to experience envy in the workplace. Promoting an employee, recruiting a new employee, placing two similar people side by side in the same team may trigger envy.

It is hard to imagine any human being completely without envy. Some individuals, of course, are, for whatever reasons, much more envious than others. But all humans probably experience some envy.

In this course you'll learn :

1. How to overcome envy?

2. Things, qualities, possessions that induce envy in people

3. What provokes your envy?

4. Social status, Wealth and Envy

5. Why do we hate people we envy? Sour grapes.

6. Comparison, Competition and Envy in companies

7. What to do if you envy a friend, neighbor or colleague?

8. What is schadenfreude?

9. How is envy related to inequality?

10. Feeling satisfaction at the failure of others

11. Envy between coworkers

12. Envy in companies, organizations, offices

13. How do organizations provoke envy in employees

14. Can feeling envy be useful to us?

15. If you are being envied by someone...

16. How to protect yourself from envious colleagues

17. So you are envious of someone. What to do?

18. How to overcome envy in yourself

19. Professional envy and how to deal with it

20. How to diminish envy at workplace?

21. How is envy managed in society?

22. Letting go of envious feelings

23. How to stop envying other people

24. Envy management skills

25. Generational envy

26. Case study. Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders

27. Envy and recruitment process in organizations

28. Envy of the young, rich and famous

29. Envying the promoted colleague

30. The envious recruiter

31. Being envied: Gender differences

32. Signs that you are being envied

33. How can you deal with envious people?

34. Dealing with envious relative. Envious family member

35. Working through situations of being envied

36. How to avoid being the target of envy at work?

37. What should I do if I am envious of someone?

38. Someone has been more successful than me

39. Reducing envy between co-workers

40. What can the manager do to prevent envy in the company?

41. Is envying human nature?

42. Social comparison and envy

The existence of envy is an unavoidable aspect of social interaction. But we cannot let it grow out of control. I hope this course will help you to deal with this complex emotion.