On Inflated Egos and Excuses

Each dreadful exam score, blown cut-off date and botched venture offers a brand new prospect to try out fresh excuses. It was an explosion at home. An ailing dog.  An urgent situation at work. Not to forget the roadways: if only they hadn’t been so frosty.

This type of conversation is so common that majority of the people hurriedly dismiss it, even when it comes out of their own mouth.

This is the primary cause that valid excuse artisans — and there are zillions of them — don’t hang around until after choking to carry out their expertise. They shuffle themselves, in intense, prior to chasing an aspiration or delivering a performance. Their excuses come pre-glued: I didn’t get enough time. Luck didn’t favor me. I was given a fair chance at the interview. I had no clue what the college application actually required.

We all know them – extremely self-assured, bigheaded people with overblown opinions of themselves. They swagger and strut, ostensibly unreceptive to critical views, intimidations of failure or the glare of self-consciousness.

These are the people with a big fat ego, which is fed only by their illusions – about themselves. The "ego" is an invented mental state, a delusion. Your ego is something that consents you to think that you are superior than who you really are; it’s a disguise, a band aid cure for a lack of self-confidence. This is the self-doubting feeling will always cause roadblocks for you.

Let's be frank. If you go and approach and you face refusal, there is a rationale behind this. You most probably are deficient in the expertise and experience and your insecurities conquest and clutter you up.

To have self-confidence is to have neither too soaring nor too squat an opinion of oneself. It is to value one's veracity, to be competent of humiliation if one fails to stand up to one's own outlook of what one should do and how one should be.  Self-esteem is the basis of value for others. One of the most adverse consequences of an inflated ego and prejudice is that it leads to lowering the sense of worth.

In the end, it’s always about the choices we make. Discern and value your strong choices. You can opt right away - to think about a stimulating idea. The aptitude to choose is what differentiates us from animals. Nobody else can do this for us—no psychotherapist, counselor or medication. So bestow yourself with some soul food today instead of feeding the inflated ego.

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