It's hard because he's so relatively successful compared to me. I feel unable to say anything a lot of the time. He's big time doctor guy with a wife who look like a super model and an adorable baby. I am average looking, average job, my husband and I are about to start seeing a fertility doctor because we've been trying for over a year with no luck. Hard to give life advice when the person you are trying to speak to sees you as lesser than themselves. I know I am a mor genuine person, a more sensitive person, I have more "emotional intelligence" if that's a thing. But he does NOT care about that sort of thing.
But we collectively try to keep him in line and keep him from losing track of what's really actually important. We try to keep him from getting too big of a head. We tease him and joke around about it and sometimes one of us will straight call it out if needed.
Please don't get me wrong. I love my younger brother a lot. When he's back in town we hang out every second we can. He's got a TON of wonderful traits. This is just a weird growing issue. And it's made more strange by the fact that when he was little he was so much not this person. He used to cry at night until I'd let him sleep in my room (on the floor or by my feet, brother germs eww! lol.) He was a super sensitive kid but then things got more complicated in our home life and he like shut off his emotions at around 12. Like it was and is still weird. His wife complains about it. We all joke about it. But every now and then he opens up to me. No one has seen him shed a tear since he was about 12. He's broken down crying twice with just me there. Once was when I was about 18 and he stilled lived at my parents house. I came to their house to get away from m then befriend, pretty beat up. Lots of bruises. Him and I were standing in the back yard and he just started crying and he was like "please just come back home. please leave him." The other time was 2 summers ago. He started crying about how our entire family is kind of falling apart. It was like 3am, it was just us and he had had a few adult beverages. I just hugged him and told him it'll be okay. Poor little guy (twice my size but he'll always be a little guy to me.) He has emptions in there, he just wont let them out. We are pretty quiet, introverted people. I write on reddit to get through some emotions. He would not do something like that. He bottles it all up. He is very popular, he is very successful, he's a good looking guy, he was a college athlete and now a successful doctor. He has the "dream" but I see through it. That kid is not happy. :(