So You Want Self-improvement? To Do It Efficiently You First Need To Fix This!
If you value your person, it is hard to change!
We all want self-improvement!
We live in the midst of the social media revolution, and it seems almost everyone is there to either self-improve or tell others how to do it.
And this should be seen as a good thing — individually and for the world as a whole. But as with New Year’s resolutions, it is one thing to say that we want to change — it is a different one to actually change, and to keep that change in place for the long term.
An important factor that prevents change is our egos. They tend to cause us to resist change and thus improve.
Let’s take a look at why that is and how we can fix the problem.
What is ego and what are its effects?
The ego is not an entity, it is the activity of seeing or understanding ourselves as separate individuals.
If we see ourselves as such we are susceptible to all of the following motivations;
- competition — we want to beat others to it
- aggrandization — we want to give the world the impression that we are very good, better than…
