Pride is essentially competitive

I am finishing up C.S. Lewis's book,   Mere Christianity.  This book covers a bunch of topics, anything from the natural law, marriage, the trinity, and a bunch more stuffis.  A couple of days ago I finished a chapter called, The Great Sin.  C.S. made some points that just hit me hard.  So here are a few:

• "I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice."               

-This is just an interesting point.  The vice Lewis is referring to is pride, and that it is almost completely something that only Christians are aware of in there lives.  It seems the more and more we walk down the road of Christianity the more we see our pride. 

• "...it was through pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."

-Pride is considerd a mother sin.  It is the root of other sins, such as lust, envy, murder, and so on. 

• "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."        

-Right on brotha Lewis!  This is completely true, and is where I got the title for this blog.  When someone wins a race, they don't become prideful because the won, bu

t because the beat all the others. It's not when we look at ourselves that we become prideful, but when we compare ourselves to others.  

How can we cure this pride problem, Lewis gives the first step and I will give the second:

1. Admit that you are proud. 
2. Stop looking horizontally and start looking vertically.  

What do you guys think about the topic of pride vs. humility, any pointers, insight, comments?