Sometimes Being EGO-TISTICAL Can Destroy You (POB Word Of The Week : EGO #8)
Ego is something that must be owned by someone from birth, the ego is literally a basic human trait related to personality and self-esteem that affects their lives. Ego may be synonymous with arrogance, selfishness, consider himself better than other people and so on, but in fact ego also has a positive meaning aside from the negative values that we know so far.
In this POB WOTW #8 opportunity, i would like to discuss specifically about one of the forms of EGO, namely EGO-TISTICAL, which is selfish without thinking about others. This trait is a negative form of EGO that maybe all of you also sometimes have and show an ego attitude for your own good.
Sometimes thinking about yourself is indeed an important thing to save us from several situations or events that can have a detrimental impact on yourself, of course sometimes we need to act like this but what will happen if you do and continue to be an egoisticial person?
In my opinion, personally, in our life we definitely need other people because basically humans are social creatures who cannot live without the help of other people. So that if you are being egotistical person, it will directly affect your social life.
Maybe many of us meet people who are always selfish, whether it's friends, coworkers, friends and even family, then what do you think if you relate to this person? Yup, of course you will lose respect and sympathy for that person, being an egotistical person can be a boomerang for yourself.
The disadvantage of being a person who is too egoistic is that you will lose many people who will sympathize with you, lose respect from others, are considered to have a bad personality, even no one wants to have a social relationship with you which will certainly have a negative impact on your life in the future.
Thinking for yourself is important but only in a reasonable way and we must also think about others. Being Egotistical Person can destroy you in both your social life and impact on many aspects both psychologically, materially and socially.
In my life experience and my social life, there are so many people who have high egoism, so that sometimes I often ignore them when they talk, lose respect, sympathy and even lazy to deal with them. I personally have the principle "What you give me is what you get". The point is when someone does good to me then I will repay that person 2x or more, but on the other hand if someone does bad things to me then I will ignore or maybe repay twice as badly. But what I often do is ignore those who do bad to me instead of having to expend energy to repay their actions.
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Having an ego is something I pride in. It restricts me from certain things and keeps me in check
Sounds like someone I know ( spoiler : my wife)
It's crazy how I can handle it, because we both got it and trust the process, we fight over something every second of the day, yet come back to be total sweethearts :)
I think most humans are 'matchers'. We need to see some degree of reciprocity in the people we interact with in order to continue with the relationship.
Then there are a few 'givers' who give more than they get without seeming to mind. On the other extreme there are 'takers' who only care about themselves and seek to extract the most value out of the relationship for themselves without caring about the other party.
That was a quick summary of the book 'Give and Take' by Adam Grant. He didn't go into it if i recall the book correctly, but I think even for 'matchers', it is a spectrum rather than a binary classification.
Glad to see you around. Good write-up and all the best in the competition!
The ego is like a double-edged sword, many times they have a more negative than positive sense, because it creates what you say, an apathy and a rejection therefore to speak of itself as the best in this world and to boast of what they have without limit any.
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Everything in life has a negative aspect to it, generally I don't see pride as a bad thing, you can be proud and I don't have a problem with it.
You see the think is pride is like showing so much regards to something, more like giving every bit of anything an importance and making sure everyone notices it!
Having an Ego is cool, actually!
I mean I see people make the expression :
"I'm Proud Of You"
Yet when I say
"I'm Proud Of Myself"
Someone picks offense that I understand my value?
To the most of it, pride is cool, robbing it in is also really cool, it's like having to let your light shine.
Slamming others based on the fact that you seem better is what is not acceptable, and to me, that entirely has nothing to do with ego or pride, it's just bad manners and evil approaches.
So people tend to define actions wrongly.
That's the problem with 'ego', isn't it? It's when we allow it to take over, and when we're so concerned with 'self' and 'I' we believe it is everything, and do all kinds of things to protect who we 'think' we are, 'think' being the operative word. Ego then becomes a dirty word, when really, a sense of self is fine in and of itself.
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I have personally witnessed this. Nobody understands that you are acting egoistically because of your inherent character or maybe that's your normal reaction to a situation. People always think of you as a bad person and break ties with you when they see you acting egositic.
I think ego is something that most be managed properly and the problem most people get is how to manage them to make right or wrong decisions.
This is a very informative post. I will like to commend you.
Like you pointed out, it's okay to sometimes put yourself first. We cannot actually love others more than we love yourself.
But when we think about ourselves only without considering the feelings of others is destructive. In little or no time, you end up alone as no one would want to associate with you.No man is an island and we need others to survive.
It's possible for someone who is egoistic to change. They must first accept that they have this problem and make conscious effort to change. They have to show more emphaty and be genuinely concerned about others.
It might sometimes mean making sacrifices when it's not convenient.
I like the 'what you give me is what you get' approach, that's how I behave too and I make sure I do so to egotistical people.
With all these of people ignoring them because of their attitude some still don't get, they think all they do is normal and don't have the mind of depreciating from it soon
Having ego is not a bad thing,but once you allow it to take over you and your decision then it is bad
You made the best decision to ignore them. Nice content.
Ego is a coin, it has two sides. It's up to us to choose the best one for us to take advantage of. This can not be simple, but it can achieved.