Tag: them

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.