The ego is an unhealthy belief in our importance. arrogance. Selfish ambition.
The ego is the enemy of what you want and what you have.
The ego is the enemy of craft mastery.
The ego is the enemy of true creative insight.
The ego is the enemy of good work with others.
The ego is the enemy of building loyalty and support.
The ego is the enemy of longevity.
The ego is the enemy of replicating and retaining your success.
Build our self-esteem, inspiration, encouragement, and reassurance that we can do whatever we desire. In fact, it makes us vulnerable.
The ability to assess an individual’s ability is one of the most important skills of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.
Practice seeing yourself from a small distance. Get out of your head. Separation is a natural antidote to the ego.
Although we think big, we must act and live small to achieve what we strive for.
Because we will focus on work and education, and forgo validation and prestige, our ambition will not be grandiose but rather iterative.
What many of us do when we're feeling overwhelmed or overwhelmed with a project: Everything but focuses on it.
A human's best treasure is a thrifty tongue. Words are draining us. Talk and do fighting for the same resources.
The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void, facing it rather than scrambling to remove it.
Ego crosses out what matters and replaces it with what doesn't.
It is not Who do I want to be in life? but What is it that I want to accomplish in life?
Not only is the strength of being a student a long time teaching, but it also puts ego and ambition in someone else's hand. There is a kind of imposed ego ceiling - one knows he is no better than the "master" who trains under him.
Updating your assessment of your talents in a descending direction is one of the most difficult things to do in life - but it's always an element of mastery.
You can't know if you think you already know.
The "power pack" assured us by our teachers and teachers is our most important asset. It is this burning desire that does not subside at the beginning of the achievement of a vague, ambitious and distant goal. This seemingly innocuous drive is far from the right path that hurts it. They had a passion and lacked something else.
John Wooden saw these extra feelings as a burden. Instead, his philosophy was about being in control, doing your job and never being a "slave of passion."
Nobody describes them as indifferent. They wouldn't say they're excited or excited either.
Opportunities are not usually deep pools, requiring courage and daring to dive into them, but rather they are veiled, covered in dust, and obscured by various forms of resistance. What is really needed in these circumstances is clarity, deliberation, and systematic determination. But all too often, we go along this way: A flash of inspiration: I We want to try our best and be the youngest. "The first and the most."
Shortness of breath, impulsivity, and insanity are bad alternatives to discipline, mastery, strength, purpose, and perseverance.
Those who can tell you in great detail about who they intend to become and when they intend to achieve it can tell you all the things that they will do, or even that they have started, but cannot show their progress. Because there is hardly any.
What we are asking for in our ascent are goal and pragmatism.
The goal is to pursue something outside of yourself rather than please yourself.
It would be so much better if you got intimidated by what lay ahead - humbly by its size and determined to see it regardless.
He thrived on what was considered an evil deed, asked for and strived to be the best precisely what other people thought was too good for him.
Greatness comes from humble beginnings. It comes from hard work. This means that you are the least important person in the room - until you change that with the results.
Be less, do more.
Those who achieve the greatest results are those who never lose their self-control but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and courteous.
The person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except ideas, so he loses contact with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
Plato spoke of the kind of people guilty of eating their own thoughts. They assume what they desire is available and they start arranging the rest, and they enjoy contemplating everything they will do when they have what they want, making their lazy souls even lazier.
General George C. Marshall refused to keep a diary during World War II despite requests from historians and friends. He was worried that this would turn his quiet, reflexive time into a kind of performance and self-delusion. He may criticize difficult decisions out of concern for his reputation and future readers and distort his thinking based on their looks.
As long as you look at things and people; You can't see anything above you.
Whoever the gods want to destroy, they first call promising.
Pretty men hear nothing but praise.
What am I missing now that the most humble person would see?
What you are proud of yourself will ruin you.
Is it ten thousand hours to master? Did not matter. There is no end.
Basketball player Bill Bradley used to remind himself, "When you don't train, remember, someone somewhere trains, and when you meet him he's going to win."
As our island of knowledge grows, so does our beach of ignorance.
The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things.
Keep your identity small.
There is a real danger in any label that comes with a career: Are we suddenly a "filmmaker", "writer", "investor", "entrepreneur", or "executive" because we've accomplished one thing?
We might think that future success is just the natural next part of the story - when it's rooted in work, creativity, perseverance, and luck.
Artists who believed it was "inspiration" or "pain" that fueled their art and created an image around it - rather than hard work and honest clamour - will eventually find themselves at the bottom of a bottle or at the wrong end needle.
We all say yes regularly without thinking, out of mysterious attraction, or out of greed or vanity. Because we can't say no - because we might lose something if we did. We believe that "yes" will allow us to achieve more when in reality it prevents exactly what we are seeking. We all waste our precious lives doing things we don't like, proving ourselves to people we don't respect and getting things we don't want.
The Greek word euthymia is a word we have to think about a lot: it's a sense of our path and how to continue it without the distraction of all others intersecting with it.
Think about what is really important to you and then take steps to let go of the rest.
Ego definitely says so, even though you are just starting to get acquainted with something, so why not jump right in the middle of something else?
The feeling of certainty that brought you here can become a burden if you aren't careful.
You have to fight to be the one that philosophy tried to make for you.
If you want to live happily, live hidden.
The narcissist lives in an unfenced city. The fragile sense of self is constantly under threat.
There are two types of time in our life: dead time, when people are passive and wait, and lifetime, when people learn, act and benefit every second. Every moment of failure, every moment or situation that we did not choose or deliberately control, present that choice: live time. Deadtime. What will happen?
Think about what you've been putting off. Issues she refused to deal with.
What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; Whether the right thing is achieved should not bother him.
Denial is your ego that refuses to believe that what you don't like might be true.
Ego asks: Why is this happening to me? How do I memorize this and prove to everyone that I am as cool as they think? It is an animal's fear even from the slightest sign of weakness.
Any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people's experiences.
