Our task is twofold: To see things clearly by getting outside our ego to let the obstacle in front of us lead us to a better resolution. The obstacle - this relationship - became the way to something much better. There was also a time when a troubled work relationship caused me to take a career turn I would not have otherwise. She said, “I see that you take it seriously but not personally.” Indeed, when we separate ourselves from the issue at hand, we can see the best path. Egos became involved and teammates became enemies that day. I can remember one day in high school football practice when a fight nearly broke out. When we are aware of where our ego is driving us, we can instead take the wheel with the better part of our mind to go to a location which serves us and others. The important point is that the obstacle has become the way to something better. Again, the particulars are not what’s important. The particular person working on it chose to raise awareness of the issue and suggest that it be addressed. Similarly, we had a problem at work which has come up quite a few times. My opponent was not the task it was my ego. More accurately, my ego was looking for a win.īecause of this perhaps-subconscious motive, I hurried through the task and ended up having to go back to clean up my work.
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(In fact, it doesn’t really matter for the purpose of this example.) When it came time to test our skills and what we had learned, I wanted to do so with ease and speed.
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Ego is the enemy.” I have been taking a class this week in which the material covered the installation of software. Renzo Gracie said, “My opponent is my teacher.
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I want to illustrate how these principles inform my thinking with two incidents that happened just in the past couple of days. When I read these books, I internalized both ideas and come back to them almost daily. The two phrases making up the title of this post are tattooed on the forearms of Ryan Holiday, who also wrote books with each of these phrases as the title. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.” (Epictetus) “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control.