If you want to find out how proud you are

If you want to find out how proud you are, [the easiest way] is to ask yourself, ‘How much do I dislike it/when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show off?’  *  shove your oar in mean? British, informal. : to give people one's opinion when they do not want it.* to patronise ; to treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself to be better or more important than they are: The point is that [each person’s pride] is in competition with every one else’s pride.  It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party [that I am so annoyed at someone else /being the big noise]. * 강조구문 it is~ that~ Two of a trade never agree.  Now [what you want to get clear] is that Pride is essentially competitive—is competitive by its very nature—while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident.  Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it /than the next man.  We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others.  If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about.  It is the comparison [that makes you proud]: the pleasure of being above the rest.  Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.  That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive /in a way () the other vices are not. . .  Greed may drive men /into competition /if there is not enough to go round; but [the proud man], even when he has got more /than he can possibly want, will try to get still more /just to assert his power.  [Nearly all those evils in the world //which people put down to greed or selfishness] are really far more the result of Pride. From Mere Christianity Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis