![]() It’s the difference between potent and poisonous. One is girding yourself, the other gaslighting. ![]() Ego is self-anointed, its swagger is artifice. Whereas ego is artificial, this type of confidence can hold weight. What replaces ego is humility, yes - but rock-hard humility and confidence. When we remove ego, we’re left with what is real. The performance artist Marina Abramovic puts it directly: “If you start believing in your greatness, it i the death of your creativity.” No, instead, he becomes more and more arrogant, and some people, not knowing what is underneath such an attitude, mistake his arrogance for a sense of power and self-confidence.’ You could say they start to mistake that about themselves too, not realizing the disease they’ve contracted or that they’re killing themselves with it. The pioneering CEO Harold Geneen compared egoism to alcoholism: ‘The egotist does not stumble about, knocking things off his desk.
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