755 Mastering Your Ego

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

YOU CAN'T LET YOUR EGO RUN THE SHOW. You might be consumed by your ego and not even know it. It can be a powerful tool or the cause of your downfall. You need to recognize it, be aware of it, laugh at it, and finally work together with your ego to be your best self. Break the bonds of your ego. Otherwise, when will you ever be enough? On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I’ve created a mashup on this topic featuring three people who have learned to work with their ego, not for it: Taye Diggs, Ryan Holiday, and Justin Baldoni. Taye Diggs is an actor and singer who is known for his roles on Broadway, TV, and Film. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multi-platinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. Justin Baldoni is an actor, director, and filmmaker who currently plays Rafael Solano on the award-winning show Jane the Virgin. These men have all experienced success in their careers, but they have to constantly work on keeping a healthy ego so that they do not self-destruct. It’s a daily battle. So get ready to learn what it takes to master your ego on Episode 755. Some Questions I Ask: What are some ways you can practice self-love? (6:00) How does reality help cure the ego? (8:00) What’s your biggest challenge right now? (12:00) Are you afraid of not being relevant? (14:30) In This Episode You Will Learn: Why knowing that you are enough is so difficult (7:00) Why you need to surround yourself with people who tell you the truth (9:00) The struggle between our lower and higher nature (13:00) How service can help to manage your ego (17:30) How to stop making your good deeds about you (20:00)

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0:00.0	This is episode number seven five five on mastering your ego.
0:06.7	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete
0:12.1	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:17.6	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:23.6	Now let the class begin.
0:30.8	Sigmund Freud said the ego is not master in its own house.
0:38.2	And Anne Frank said everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don't
0:44.8	know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish and what your potential
0:51.4	is. Ego is a topic that so many people are asking questions about lately because it's the thing
0:59.1	that can ruin your life if you don't know how to manage and control your ego. We all have different
1:05.2	shadows and darkness within us. We all have different desires, dreams, hopes and things that we
1:13.2	think of that maybe aren't so good as well. And in this episode we break down from a few key
1:19.4	people about how to be the master of your ego and not how to be afraid of your ego, but really how
1:27.2	to shape and mold it to support you in achieving your dreams instead of breaking you down and ruining
1:34.1	you. We've got Ryan Holiday who's a best-selling author, media strategist who is sharing about ego
1:41.6	in this episode and really diving into his philosophy of all the different struggles and challenges
1:46.4	he's gone through. And the research he's done from the greatest leaders of our time on how they've
1:53.1	overcome ego as well. We've got Tade Diggs who's an actor and a singer best known for his roles
1:59.6	in musicals and TV series and movies. He breaks down the ego from that point of view,
2:07.5	living a life in an attainment, how he's managed ego to support him and not ruin his life. And we
2:14.5	have Justin Baudoni who's an actor, director and social entrepreneur focused on creating and affecting
2:20.3	positive change. He shares more about the ego on how he's really shaped this to support him in his
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