Your ego can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Your ego is what gives you the confidence to finally talk to that girl in your math class, but it can also be the thing that gets you fired from your job. Your ego is the power behind feeling good about yourself in selfies, but also the demon that can get you into a fight. We’ve seen ego ruin the careers of athletes, celebrities, public figures. Yet, it is such a necessary tool to allow ourselves to know our worth.
You have to be able to dictate your ego to know when it needs to come out to play, or when it should take a backseat. Pushing your ego to the side is a big force behind admitting a defeat, and even more-so in using that defeat to grow and learn for future attempts. No one ever wants to admit defeat, yet when we do we ultimately end up finding strength and desire through it. Some of the tastiest wins are those that began with salt in the wound of defeat.
You can’t let these defeats dictate your future success.
We can’t see obstacles and adversity as stop signs, but rather as speed-bumps. When we face a problem, we must work to solve it. This solution may take trial and error, you may fall flat on your face in pursuit of a win, but that pursuit must continue. Your ego shouldn’t become over-inflated, but you have to keep it full of enough air to stay afloat. You have to be able to use your ego to your advantage. It is a massively powerful tool, a tool that can easily build you up, but just as easily break you down.
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