Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

ego tells us what we want to hear, when we want to hear it.

“If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”

“a conscious separation from.”

This obsession with the past, with something that someone did or how things should have been, as much as it hurts, is ego embodied.

Any ambitious person knows that feeling—that you must do great things, that you must get your way, and that if you don’t that you’re a worthless failure and the world is conspiring against you. There is so much pressure that eventually we all break under it or are broken by it.

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Unless we use this moment as an opportunity to understand ourselves and our own mind better, ego will seek out failure like true north.