Ego Management

This morning I was generally asking my kids for an idea for today's blog. My younger daughter Reia came up with a suggestion, "Ego Management". I thought this was apt considering that in my opinion she very much needed Ego Management. It turned out that the reason for her suggestion was that she shared my opinion. In her opinion I very much needed Ego Management. And both of us very very sure that we were right.

And that is the essence of Ego Management. If you think you need it you probably don't. And if you're sure that you don't need it, you probably do.

I looked around for definitions or explanations of EGO. And surprisingly I couldn't find a simple one. And although I think I know what it is, I have no idea how to define or explain it. The closest I found was:

The ego, or that part of our minds that constantly thinks in terms of “I”, “Me”, and “Mine” is one of the buttons that people can press deliberately or accidentally .
The ego wants to look good, be right, not make mistakes, not admit failure, manipulate, and control or appear in control at all times.

I think a quotation sums it very well:
Ego closes your eyes for the truth.
Selflessness opens them.
Ego makes you lose your self-respect.
Selflessness gains it.

There are a few interesting articles on Ego that you may want to go through.

Wikipedia's article summarizes as:
Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the organized, realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego

And Osho has an articles on the spiritual angle titled, Ego - The False Center
http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm

At the end Reia was right. I did need a lesson on Ego Management. But my Ego doesn't allow me to have the last word, I think she does too. :-)