Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
Egos turn me off, big time.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
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