Lastly, those with narcissistic personality disorder have an inflated self-importance, hypersensitivity to criticism and a sense of entitlement that compels them to persuade others to comply with their requests.
Contemplate that as long as you are too focused on self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will experience suffering.
Other speakers have often used it simply as a parable teaching the dangers of inflexibility and self-importance, or the need for situational awareness.
Apart from taking himself very seriously indeed, he is also an extreme example of self-importance, with the unhappy result that he is much snubbed by those he considers beneath him.
