When does your ego stand in the way of your career?

A big ego means that someone perceives themselves as more important than others. Individuals with a big ego are prone to arrogance, they want to be better, faster, and more successful than others without rational motivation and real success. The ego will cause you to be unable to deal with constructive criticism which is inevitable in a career.

From a Healthy Self-confidence to Morbid Criticism!

The “ego mood” will certainly make you feel superior to others and you will cross the boundaries of self-confidence and talent. It is then your confidence turns into arrogance, and righteousness into recklessness.

Self-confidence, among other things, means that you can assume a position which considers all the facts and opinions of those involved in a situation. This provides you an insight into the big picture which can partially be abstract. But that doesn’t make you an alienated visionary, you are not above things because you value personal contact with your colleagues. Because of that, you are devoted to helping your coworkers, you wish to build good relationships with them in difficult times and whenever possible. You use your self-confidence as an inner belief to do well to others.

On the other hand, if you are arrogant, you build and work on what benefits you only. Therefore, arrogance means assuming a position which considers only the facts and opinions which fulfill certain criteria you find useful.

A big ego is self-involved. Due to limited vision, it’s not uncommon for a false exaggerated picture to be perceived under the influence of alcohol, for example. When intoxicated, you are self-involved. What made you successful in the beginning makes it feel as if you drank with egomania or an ill person in the worst case, who does not recognize where their grief comes from even though the answer is obvious.

The World Values Action!

Activities you undergo independently should be a priority because your achievements are based on what you have really done. That is healthy and easily understood. In that case, faith in yourself comes from actual achievements which became a reality through diligence, sweat, and your own abilities.

A selfish person would adjust reality instead. It is an empty belief based on ego. Ego is an inflated nothing, important on the outside but empty on the inside.

Do You Think You Already Know it All?

Your ego enjoys comfort. It whispers that everything is fine as it is, that you already know all you need to know and where you are in your career path. But be careful if you think you’re on the right way. The wheel of life is already descending towards the next life problem-not as a reward for your success but as an answer to your arrogance. If you wish to continue your journey upwards, build your career on a healthy basis, you can but only with palpable and personal achievements. And there is no room for ego on that journey because your ego wants to make you famous without hard work, action, and knowledge. If you think you it all, you are really standing in a dark room without windows and can’t see anything around you.

When your ego is your inner driving force, your inner engine, you are constantly exposed to danger. Your ego will destroy the knowledge you’ve been acquiring in life, destroy your experience and your realistic point of view. When you go through life powered by the engine of ego, sooner or later, you will run out of fuel. You will then realize! You will realize that ego alone is nothing. But what pushes you forward once you realize that? It’s the belief and values you hold strongly but which require sustainable virtue and success without egoism. You can achieve that only by not succumbing to the toxic ego boost, but continuing sober, stable, and resolute.

Without Ego, You Are a Beginner

Do you wish to advance in your career? Do you wish to work entirely objectively and independently? Do you wish to learn, to educate yourself, to perfect yourself? Do you wish to experience the world of knowledge, the world of business? You no longer wish to let your ego dominate you making you feel a void within yourself? In that case, you are a beginner who is bound to experience discomfort in the beginning. You might blush and your hands might sweat or tremble. Anything is possible when you’re a beginner. It is quite normal when you begin to advance in your career through your own independent work. However, if the discomfort frightens you or upsets you making you give up from realizing any goal the moment you come across the slightest obstacle, your ego will reappear. Therefore, remain on the path of personal advancement and perfection without the domination of ego, even though you will occasionally experience slight discomfort which is normal and will become less frequent in time.

Be Careful in Your Defeats!

The road to success is not easy. Independent actions that you undertake will not always be successful. It is essential that you be prepared for that and know how to handle defeats. Your ego won’t like it. Your ego will react whenever you are defeated, even in cases of success but that which does not set you apart from others. If you don’t react to your ego’s displeasure and you focus on what’s within your power, you’ll be on a good path. Your ego will influence everything that happens at work whether you’re rewarded, being punished with disrespect or enduring negative criticism from your coworkers. It is important that you perform as well as you can in accordance with your abilities, and to use your own standards as a measure. If your goal is to advance in your career, it is enough that you abide by your standards. If you do your best and you believe in yourself and in what you do, you have nothing to be afraid of. A job according to your demands as well as the willingness to do it properly is more than enough for the beginning. In order to endure, be aware of your actions, maintain your attitude, and be patient.

Why?

Because you will be fighting two battles in the beginning. Your ego will not disappear easily but will continue to reappear just like dust. On the other hand, you want to improve yourself professionally and advance in your career. You want real success to fulfill you on the inside and help you work your way up. That is why your task, besides the job that you do, will be to tame your ego using self-control. If ego dominated you, you would only be an amateur, neglecting new challenges, and fall behind others in your career. The double pressure, your ego which distracts you from moving forward and your outer standards of continued advancement, can hold you back it will eventually be worth it.