Specifically a focus on social hierarchies, an effect of which self-pity is the cause.
The opposite of “Take nothing personally”.
It is self-importance that causes us to think that everything that is said or done is somehow personal to us as individuals.
To get angry at the schmuck who cuts you off in traffic is self-importance. It’s about him, not about you.
The common misconception is that self-importance is arrogance or egomaniacal behavior, and while that could be true to an extent, self-importance is more accurately an underlying defensiveness that prevents the warrior from embracing clarity and power because they are so busy defending themselves when there is nothing to defend in the first place.