Ergo Ego and Eggs

I suspect it’s fairly obvious to most of us that an ego needs a counter ego, a.k.a. another person or persons.

These supply the curvy, weirdly distorting carnival mirrors by which we judge ourselves, implicitly through our imaginations or in fact; by which process the ego weighs itself.

Given this, I would say that there are two ways to attenuate the potentially negative (i.e. over stimulated) impact of the ego on whatever it is that you’re trying to achieve.

One, is to pretend that all other people either don’t exist or don’t matter. Or, at the very least, that their judgements don’t matter.

The second approach, the harder one, is to detach yourself from whatever it is you’re trying to achieve in life. This approach just makes you a smaller target for the judgements of others. However it also involves becoming a walking paradox.

In military terms, the two choices are either declaring sovereign neutrality or the adoption of expensive stealth technology to reduce your radar footprint.

These have both worked some of the time.