Sublime

Entitlement assumes: This is mine. I’ve earned it. At the same time, entitlement nickels and dimes other people because it can’t conceive of valuing another person’s time as highly as its own. It delivers tirades and pronouncements that exhaust the people who work for and with us, who have no choice other than to go along. It overstates our abiliti

When you live through the mind-made self comprised of thought and emotion that is the ego, the basis for your identity is precarious because thought and emotion are by their very nature ephemeral, fleeting. So every ego is continuously struggling for survival, trying to protect

their job title, the business school they went to, the number of assistants they have, the location of their parking space, the grants they earn, their access to the CEO, the size of their paycheck, or the number of fans they have.

The center of our conscious life is called ego. It has two concurrent characteristics: It is functional in that it is the strong grounded activating principle by which we make intellectual assessments and judgments, show feelings appropriately, and relate skillfully to other people. It can also be neurotic when it becomes attached, addicted, dualis

Your ego is your opinion of yourself. How you think of yourself in the various aspects of your life defines what you regard as the real you. Consider this, you have a variety of egos. You have an opinion of yourself with respect to money, it either comes easy or hard is what is in your mind. You have an opinion of your state of health, you have an

Ego has cost the people I admire hundreds of millions of dollars,

As Chögyam Trungpa explained, the ego is a sort of central government, while “the emotions are the highlights of the ego, the generals of ego’s army; subconscious thought, daydreams, and other thoughts connect one highlight to another. So thoughts form ego’s army and are constantly in motion, constantly busy.”16 With such an army, we strive to rema

The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.

Freud believed the ego had defence mechanisms that were designed to deal with internal conflict. These devices were an outlet for the neuroses born from the constant tussle between the public face – the super-ego – and the id or inner rage. He argued that when id impulses (the desire to have sex or take revenge) come into conflict with the super-eg