Bruce maybe spends 1 year on his own before finding Tim Drake.Tim is 14 years old and by 17 years old changes to his mantle to Red Robin / Bruce is 30 years old now.
I think, there can be the basement of pressing. As an example here could be social networks, where people share their life to others, and other had to be better than first one. So there can be the pressure of economical situation of some persons, and also the pressure of lower self-esteem.
Brag is to show off your stuff or think your the best