Ego Kills Growth

Manikanta Belde

Welcome to new and exclusive podcast, “Ego kills growth.” Ego, a simple 3 letter word, which has more influence on every human, who wears it in his life all the way. Having ego has mostly negative effects and sometimes more worse than that. Even though we know it doesn’t help or bring peace to us, we always have it in our life and suffer unnecessarily. So it has to be left from life to attain peace and satisfaction. Even success comes easily when you leave your ego. Let me tell you story of two people who work in the same company. One is always friendly and good to everyone in the company. Another guy is not so friendly and he doesn’t speak to anyone that much but he does his work with full interest. Both employees are senior level managers waiting for their promotion. One day only one of them can be given promotion so the orders to select one of them for promotion have been given. At that point of time, the head decided to select one of them after careful examination. Both passed several tests successfully and the head of them doesn’t know what to do. Then he asked for voting process by the employees in the company. The voting revealed the first person as fit one for promotion which has happened because of his nature of friendliness, open to learn and free from ego. From this story you can understand the adverse effects of having ego in life. It is also clear that who is free from ego can attain success, peace and satisfaction easily. Now you have realized the negative impact of having ego in your life and now I am going to share few rules, which help you get free from ego. The rules are as follows: First rule is- Don’t compare yourself with others. Most of the people I have met always compare themselves to others. They always scale their development based on other people’s development, which is not so good. So stop comparing yourself to others and be yourself, which makes you free from ego easily. This is magical rule which works great, if you can use it perfectly. Second rule is- be friendly with everyone Being more close to people makes you free from ego because we can’t have such feeling on people who are close to us. So at least we can minimize our ego using this rule. Third rule is- ignore a situation that grows ego in you If you can’t control your ego in a situation, just move away from that situation and stay calm and meditate and everything becomes right. This will train your mind to stay away from situations that cause ego and helps you attain mental stability. Few Important things to keep in mind: Ego is a feeling which makes your mind feel stressful and feeling stressful isn’t right for brain. Ego will separate people and sometime this result in envy between people. So stay away from ego. Thanks for listening to podcast An inspired show By Manikanta belde.