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Scott Barry Kaufman: The Quiet Ego

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The Importance of Having a Quiet Ego

You've written that quieting the ego, as opposed to focusing on self-enhancement, is much more effective and cultivating well-being. Could you explain how you define the word ego first, and then what exactly having a quiet ego means? There's like 150,000 different definitions of ego in the field of psychology," he says. "I don't think of the ego itself as a bad thing necessarily"

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