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Is There a Healthy Ego?

You don’t have to become a monk to nurture an ego that helps you to reach your full potential in modernity.

It is incredible that despite today’s more comfortable, safer, and economically stronger world, we are less happy, less peaceful, and more anxious.

Now, the ego plays an important role in this misery.

In this article, I’ll share my key learnings after interviewing monks, extensive psychology research, 300 hours of personal meditation practice and running meetups with 200+ people.

All with the goal to give you some powerful insights to nurture a healthy ego that serves you.

Before we get to this, what is the ego anyway?

An empty cup = an empty ego?

To illustrate what the ego is I’ll share a story with you.

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Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868–1912), received a University professor, who came to inquire about Zen.