Sometimes an over-inflated ego strikes us in ways we don’t expect.
An example:
One of my biggest battles with my ego happens when I learn something interesting, stuff that is “off book,” something that makes me special. I usually assume the people around me won’t get it, won’t understand it, and won’t want to hear it.
I keep it to myself. Then I pay for it.
It costs me in two ways:
- Externally, through not teaching – I lose the chance to transform and promote change. I miss sharpening the skills I just invested time in learning. I don’t work with the material in a different way, building my own lessons through pushing them from my prism.
- Internally, by not respecting the people around me – It becomes another way to build a wall, exclude, and “specialize” myself. It becomes tougher to get along with them because I start chiding them from something they didn’t even cause. They are THEM and I and those who went through it are US.
When we refuse to give people the chance to engage with what we know, we’re the ones who lose out.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 