Ego is slang for insecurity
Mickey Mellen
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A recent podcast from Gary Vaynerchuk brought out a quick slew of comparisons. I had to listen a few times to get them straight, but here’s what he said:
“Ego is slang for insecurity, and I think a lot of people mix up confidence with ego. Confidence is humility, and ego is insecurity. You can be confident and humble, but being insecure and humble is much harder to contain in a human.“
To break down his thoughts, we have:
It all makes sense until the final conclusion where it gets a little tricky. Having an ego and being confident is hard to do? It feels like people do that a lot.
His real comparison is simply confidence versus ego. If we see someone with one of those traits, we often assume the other as well, but maybe that’s not the case. If ego comes from insecurity and confidence comes from a place of humility, they’re quite different things.
Personally, I strive to have confidence but I don’t strive to have an ego, so I guess that checks out.
What do you think? Do you think a big ego is someone hiding their insecurity, and that being confident is showing humility?
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6 个月I love this. I feel like it nails what I've strived for personally- to have confidence not in me but what was put in me to share with and benefit others. And that can't co-exist with ego, which typically puts self first. Thanks for sharing this. Perfect example: Simone Biles who put EGO aside to help build the CONFIDENCE of her competitor and fellow gymnast Jordan Chiles. She did not have to do that. But her confidence came from a place of humility to see herself in Jordan and she made a decision of humility to help build her up. THAT was confidence- not ego. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8207379009306199&set=a.423004274410417
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6 个月I definitely agree. Confidence is much more becoming.