Hey, this is Leo, for Actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to address the question of,

what's wrong with ego?

Why is ego such a bad thing? If you've been following

If you've been following along with actualized lot of content, you see certain themes, these

overarching narratives developing and patterns that you're seeing within personal development these larger patterns and one of these patterns that should be becoming quite obvious to you is the role that ego plays in your life and in personal development. But I want to expand on this

notion because it's a very, very important thing and it really cannot be overstated.

Sometimes people wonder like, well Leo, you rag on the ego a lot, you talk about the ego as though it's a very bad and evil thing, and what's wrong

with ego? I mean, what's wrong with ego? I mean what's wrong with being selfish?

So what if I'm biased towards myself? So what if I'm trying to improve my self

image? So what if I'm trying to build myself up and so what if I'm just

pursuing success blindly? Isn't that what's going to make me the

happiest? So what if I'm building up my identity?

So what if I have all these belief systems and structures in place?

So what?

I mean, look, my life is going well and people around me are doing the same stuff and it seems to be getting better and better.

And isn't that what personal development is about is about

building up the ego.

So let's really investigate this issue.

What I'm going to claim is that the ego is the cause of the majority of the unhappiness you have in your life.

And that what's wrong with it is, it's very simple. It's the exact same mechanism of wrongness

as when you decide to spit into the wind. So what's wrong with spitting into the wind?

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