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How To Recognise Your Ego For What It Is: A Tool, A Shield, And Your New Best Friend.

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Helena Taylor
Jul 10, 2025
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For so long, being humble has been the ideal. Being humble, selfless, and putting other people’s needs before your own. Downplaying your accomplishments and avoiding talking highly of yourself, in case you are perceived as ‘having an ego’.

Nowadays, any type of self-loving behaviour can be seen as ‘egotistical and self-centered’. Even standing up for you…

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