3479: The Big Bad Ego by Briana Harry of YeMash on How to Increase Confidence and Personal Growth

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3479: Briana Harry explores the struggle of confronting and disarming the ego, especially when it resists criticism and personal growth. She reflects on how insecurity can fuel defensiveness, particularly in creative pursuits, and emphasizes the importance of self-honesty, openness to feedback, and doing the work to improve. True confidence isn’t about avoiding critique, it’s about embracing it as a tool for growth. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.yemash.com/writers-corner/the-big-bad-ego Quotes to ponder: "I’ve found that I don’t like to be challenged. Which is kind of bad considering as people we should want the other people around us to challenge us in a way that makes us better, right?" "Your ego is only a big bad monster because it feels the need to protect you from the pain of not being good enough." "When you know you haven’t put your all into your work, and when you go to show it off and people don’t like it, the pain is not in you not being good enough, it is in you not doing enough." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	This is Optimal Living Daily, The Big Bad Ego by Brianna Harry of YAMash.com.
0:39.2	And I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you articles every single day of the year, including holidays, so that you and I can both take
0:44.4	a step in the right direction and have just a bit more positivity in our day. I think it really
0:49.2	adds up. And with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
1:01.8	The Big Bad Ego by Brianna Harry of Yamash.com.
1:12.5	I found my ego, and baby, me and that b-h are not friends. Everyone has one. Well, maybe I'm just saying that to cater to my ego.
1:18.4	I found that I don't like to be challenged, which is kind of bad considering as people we should want the other people around us to challenge us in a way that makes us better, right? Right.
1:24.5	Well, in theory, that's just fine, but I struggle with it when it's happening.
1:29.3	I think I've always had the personality of a person who kind of just had it figured out.
1:33.8	I've always been pretty sure of myself and smart enough to speak in a way that only heightened that illusion of surety.
1:41.6	So maybe the people around me have never gathered that I needed to be challenged,
1:45.9	so it never happened until now. Now, here I am at 26, and though I've learned all I've learned
1:53.0	about not being committed to being right and not being judgmental towards other people's stances,
1:58.5	even when they're about me, I found myself in a strange
2:01.7	space when putting that into practice. The first strangeness occurs in just being aware of my ego.
2:09.0	When I think about ego, especially as a woman, I think of it as an ugly, loud piece of self
2:15.1	that I've had little issue with. My dad, for sure. My brother, you bet.
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