Ego Is the Enemy
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In this course, it is not “Who do I want to be in life?” but “What is it that I want to accomplish in life?”
Kierkegaard warned, “Mere gossip anticipates real talk, and to express what is still in thought weakens action by forestalling it."
“You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote. It’s easy to be emotionally invested and infatuated with your own work. Any and every narcissist can do that. What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”
You will not find the answers if you’re too conceited and self-assured to ask the questions. You cannot get better if you’re convinced you are the best.
Facts are better than dreams, as Churchill put it.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
How does something like this happen? Can you really go from feeling like you’re standing on the shoulders of giants one day, and then the next you’re prying yourself out of the rubble of multiple implosions, trying to pick up the pieces from the ruins?
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