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2026 workshop.com. Once again, 2026 workshop.com. Today, we're going to be talking about how to use your

ego for good. Now, when we hear the word ego, the way I've always seen it as I was growing up is

it has a bad connotation with it. We hear things like, oh, you know, his ego is just way too big or her ego was taking over

or that's just their ego talking. Oh, that's, that's his egoic side. But if you look at the ego,

and this is one of the things I want you to really start to understand, if you look at it in a

different light, is it possible that

we could use this ego for good? And so I want to talk about how do you use your ego as a tool for your

tool belt so that you can use it when you need it and then put it away when you don't need it.

And I was part of a podcast interview where a lady was talking to me

about like, well, how do you get rid of your ego? And I started telling her this and she's like, that's amazing. I've never thought about it that way. And so if it's possible that our ego will never go away, which I think that it is possible that our ego will never go away, it's always going to be there even if we work on it it might get a little bit quieter it's still

going to be there. Even if we work on it,

it might get a little bit quieter. It's still going to exist. It's actually part of our psychological

makeup. And if we can't get rid of our ego, is it possible that we can accept it and then use it

for good? And I think that it is. And I've told the story before and where this really came

to light for me is when I was writing my book, level up. And I was writing the book and I started

thinking to myself like I was editing every single word and I was going through and trying to make

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