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Most of us are in these stages in a fluid sense-we’re aspiring until we succeed, we succeed until we fail or until we aspire to more, and after we fail we can begin to aspire or succeed again.Įgo is the enemy every step along this way. Or we have failed-recently or continually. We have achieved success-perhaps a little, perhaps a lot. We’re aspiring to something-trying to make a dent in the universe. We can’t improve the world if we don’t understand it or ourselves.Īt any given time in life, people find themselves at one of three stages. It’s when the notion of ourselves and the world grows so inflated that it begins to distort the reality that surrounds us.Įspecially for successful people who can’t see what ego prevents them from doing because all they can see is what they’ve already done. It’s the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent. The need to be better than, more than, recognized for, far past any reasonable utility-that’s ego. Precisely what makes us so promising as thinkers, doers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, what drives us to the top of those fields, makes us vulnerable to this darker side of the psyche. I hope you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.