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The other day, I was at the gym with my co-founder Joel and we started a short discussion ego couriers about other products as part of Buffer’s product offering we might enjoy building one day. We went through various problems we’d enjoy solving, like online payments, social media monitoring and so forth. At one point, we got into some light brainstorming of one of the areas and the name of a related, prominent startup in the space came up. I said “I know the founder”. That line had nothing to do with the discussion and it didn’t add any value. It was rather ego couriers pure display of ego, coming to light as what we commonly know as namedropping .
Since I can remember, the idea of ego was always only the display of the most blatant egoistic behaviour from us. Like, for example, strong arrogance and bragging, extreme defensiveness of our opinion in an argument. Since I started reading more texts about buddhism, mindfulness and most recently Eckhart Tolle’s “ New Earth “, I learnt about some fascinating new perspectives regarding “ego”.
There’s ego couriers a great story in Eckhart Tolle’s “New Earth” that explains how subtle and yet still prevalent ego often is, even in people that have worked decades to remove their ego:
“Kasan , a Zen teacher and monk, was to officiate at a funeral of a famous nobleman. As he stood there waiting for the governor of the province and other lords and ladies to arrive, he noticed that the palms of his hands were sweaty.
The next day he called his disciples together and confessed he was not yet ready to be a true teacher. He explained to them that he still lacked the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king.
He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human. He then left and become the pupil of another master. The returned to his former disciples eight years later, enlightened.”
What’s so mind blowing ego couriers about this story for me is that I’d have never associated Kasan’s behaviour with ego. Instead I would have attributed it to humility or some other, very positive trait. That’s particularly interesting as it showed me that ego is much more versatile in that sense, ego couriers that I’d originally thought. ego couriers Egoless work
What I quickly ego couriers discovered is that when we do things we enjoy, we can easily be free from Ego. When we do the stuff, when we are focused on doing great work, ego is largely not present. This is really great, since it means that nearly all of us, have moments, even daily, where we operate without ego.
If you think about the last time you’ve written a blogpost, code, an email, designed something or anything else that most of us online workers do, there’s a chance that right at that moment, when you were fully involved in the task and you were just “doing”, you were completely free from ego. It’s what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called ego couriers “ Flow “.
I have also met many others who may be technically good at what they do but whose ego constantly sabotages ego couriers their work. Only part of their attention is on the work they perform; the other part is on themselves. Their ego demands personal recognition and wastes energy in resentment if it doesn t get enough and it s never enough. Is someone else getting more recognition than me? Or their main focus of attention is profit or power, and their work is no more than a means to that end. When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
That last line hit home like few things why it is so helpful to think about less ego at work: “When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.” Working on less ego
At the core of our lives purpose I believe is the pursuit of living without ego. “Living without ego” is probably just a different definition of either happiness true love spiritual fulfillment
Different world views, religions and upbringing would probably word it differently, and yet, essentially ego couriers I think that every human is the same in that aspect. We all strive for that level of “being”.
Although I feel my own ego is still very strong, there’re a few hints that I’ve picked up on, that made me feel like being on the right track. (That sentence, likely presumptuous, is probably ego couriers ego right there!) Choosing an ego-free environment : We all know intuitively whether we are at a place with high or low amount of ego. At Buffer, even as part of our values, we partially focus on designing an organization that encourages the recognizing of ego and helps the ego dissolve. Picking such an environment can be one of the most helpful things to do. Seneca put this even better:
“Even Socrates, Cato, and Laelius might have been shaken in their moral strength by a crowd that