10 Powerful Lessons From the Book “Ego is the Enemy”
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1. Your worst enemy lives in you✅
“Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego.”
Since pride is in us, it is either we feed it or starve it.
How you deal with your pride makes the big difference.
“Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego.”
Since pride is in us, it is either we feed it or starve it.
How you deal with your pride makes the big difference.
2. Manage your pride✅
"Your ego is not some power you’re forced to satiate at every turn. It can be managed. It can be directed."
As soon as you feel you are becoming egoistic, boastful, and proud – you can tell yourself to stop.
"Your ego is not some power you’re forced to satiate at every turn. It can be managed. It can be directed."
As soon as you feel you are becoming egoistic, boastful, and proud – you can tell yourself to stop.
3. Pride tells you to talk, humility tells you to listen✅
Ego encourages you to lift yourself and base your worth on nothing or false worth.
On the other hand, humility tells you how important it is to listen to people.
Ego encourages you to lift yourself and base your worth on nothing or false worth.
On the other hand, humility tells you how important it is to listen to people.
4. Become a student✅
Ego tells you not to listen to anyone. As a result, you stop learning. You stop growing.
So, if you want to keep on learning, learn to be humble first.
That’s how you become great.
Ego tells you not to listen to anyone. As a result, you stop learning. You stop growing.
So, if you want to keep on learning, learn to be humble first.
That’s how you become great.
5. Help people become great✅
If you want to become great, you need to help other people become great.
That’s just how the universal law works.
Make people great and eventually, greatness will find its way to you.
If you want to become great, you need to help other people become great.
That’s just how the universal law works.
Make people great and eventually, greatness will find its way to you.
6. Don’t be afraid to take the low position✅
Ego drives you to make certain decisions just to please others, causing a lot of problems along the way.
Instead, do what other people refuse to do simply because they think they are too important to do it themselves.
Ego drives you to make certain decisions just to please others, causing a lot of problems along the way.
Instead, do what other people refuse to do simply because they think they are too important to do it themselves.
7. Don’t look down on people✅
Looking down on people will prevent you from seeing what’s above you.
Everyone is worth our attention, love, and care.
Looking down on people will prevent you from seeing what’s above you.
Everyone is worth our attention, love, and care.
8. Ego sways us from our ultimate goal✅
Pride tells us that we deserve better. It tells us to get what others have because we are better than them.
Don’t let ego dictate which goal you need to accomplish.
Pride tells us that we deserve better. It tells us to get what others have because we are better than them.
Don’t let ego dictate which goal you need to accomplish.
9. Ego kills what we love✅
Whether it is in our career or relationship, ego has its harsh way of killing what we love.
When we put ourselves first and not considering other people’s feelings and needs, there’s a good chance that you will lose them.
Whether it is in our career or relationship, ego has its harsh way of killing what we love.
When we put ourselves first and not considering other people’s feelings and needs, there’s a good chance that you will lose them.
10. Ego is the wicked sister of success and failure✅
Whether we succeed or fail, ego is always there.
When you succeed, don’t give in to the temptation of feeling important.
When you fail, don’t feel like you have been cheated or you have been sabotaged.
Whether we succeed or fail, ego is always there.
When you succeed, don’t give in to the temptation of feeling important.
When you fail, don’t feel like you have been cheated or you have been sabotaged.
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