A person's disbelief of self-esteem or self-importance is ego. A person with ego always thinks that what he speaks, thinks, does etc. is always right and ready to fight with others for it. In this book author has explained how ego is harmful. Author demonstrated with practical examples that how ego is biggest barrier to ones success and friend of failures. History is made by the people who have kept their ego aside and worked for a cause.
Author suggests below techniques to get rid of ego
Plus Minus and equals
There are 3 types of people in this world when compared with us. First people better than us, people equal to us and people less than us. People better than us can teach us. People equal to us can compete. Challenge to grow. We can teach to people minus that us to bring them to competitive level
Get out of your own head
Actions are important.Don't be passionate.Imagining what you think success will be like but never taking the action is passionate. Always stay grounded to reality. Purpose is more important than passion. Leave passion for armatures.
Always be a student
Always learning increases our potential. Humbles the ego and reminds us that we have not yet reached to our potential. It opens us for acceptance of failures negative feedback criticism. Promotes us to self assessment. If one always becomes student then there is no room for ego . Always learn new skills techniques, things Those who do not learn with time and upgrade themselves get wiped out. Swallow your pride
Alive and dead time
Dead time is passive time or waiting Alive time is time used for actions. So act with time and use every second. Convert ego into humility. detach yourself from outcome. Accept failures. Don't get upset for lower results. Start working again.
Evaluate yourself
Constantly evaluate yourself. Maintain a scorecard. Only when free from ego one can perform. Ignore the noise. Accept all criticism. Bounce back from the lower results
Meditate on Immensity -Sympatheia. Ask who am I? What am I doing? What is my role in this world.
Thus Holiday makes the interesting point, that only when people manage to take their ego back and engage in relentless self-improvement and constant self-assessment, they are going to be successful. It is not the ego, the charisma or the revolutionary vision that makes someone great.
