Rohit Sharma
ReaderLeader
Published in
2 min readDec 30, 2016

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Is that you or your ego?

Ego, another human emotion that we come across daily.

Egos are of two types :

Positive ego
Negative ego

Positive ego is when you feel that you are the best and rest all are no where near you.

Negative ego is when you have inferiority complex, you are a poor fellow whom the God chose to punish everytime.

Mostly we know positive ego but the negative ego is more dangerous. Because it leads one to the actions which none can imagine.

When we feel we are somewhat lesser and are full of hatred for ourselves, we often do things that we are not supposed to do.

If we see the broader picture, we will find that ego is the main reason behind many problems we have.

Like an egoistic person

  • Hesitate to admire someone because of his ego.
  • She can never admit that someone is better than her.
  • They ruin the conversations by putting them in the limelight.
  • They can’t forgive someone easily.

Etc many issues.

The best ego buster is a thought,

Just think whatever someone has achieved, she must have done something better than you and for that she deserves a praise. You must accept the extra effort.

Just think we all are souls who have achieved different things in materialistic world, but at the end we all are going to end at same place.

Just think about getting motivation from others success.

Like we say in India

Don’t get jealous but get motivated

In Hindi, Jalo mat Reese karo

Getting jealous is an emotion that will take you down in every walk of life, because you are not focused on your productivity but on others achievements.

Don’t waste time to calculate others achievements but invest in getting things done to improve your productivity and hence success.

Action items

Today, tell one of your close friends about that one secret that you are not comfortable talking. This will help you to come at same level (bursting your ego) and will gain confidence in your friendship too.

Say sorry to someone who is not happy with you, saying sorry is best ego buster.

Do things you feel you would look fool doing, like if you don’t know to dance, dance like no one is watching you. This will help you get over of your image and tendency to maintain your false ego.

Moral of the story is burst your ego as soon as you can or you will be thrown out of many people’s life. Because many of us are egoistic and we can’t tolerate other egoistic person in our lives.

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Rohit Sharma
ReaderLeader

Author at ReaderLeader | Engineering leader at Amazon Go | 10+ years if industry experience