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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 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 last week 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 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 it perfect. I was adding to it.

I was subtracting to it. I was changing the words around to make them better. And I remember I was

sitting there and I was in my office and I was thinking to myself, I'm just trying to create the best

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