The problem is that pride as our sense of confort being ourselves is also closely related to the most basic impulse of survival / reproduction.

Lack of confidence, lack of pridr, can easily result in drop of productivity, drop you out of good school result, out of job, out of basic survival and reproductive needs.

Modern life is very demanding in term of capacity of creation, on capacity to build ourselves to meet ever increasing demand in skills and qualification to fit the market.

Its very draining for ego.

There is a good book on this, the fatigue to be self, that goes in depth in how depression rate is correlated with liberalism as it increase the energy required to build one self by itself for himself, with very few guideline, and actually lot of constraints to become successful, that hit very close to this concept of building strong identity with ever increasing complexity to fit economic expectation, without which it can easily hit our very survival / physical limit by being out of safe zone, increasing physical strain on security, more exposed to a lot of threats etc.

Need not to be fearful of fear itself, as any great objective will always comport more risk, and need not to simplify life to much just in order to avoid fear. Having great pride for good accomplishment is good to, but it also involve lot of fear in the process.

Thats why it requires also courage and bravery to overcome it, rather than shuning objective because they create fear, or interfer with pride.