What are your best tricks for keeping your ego in check? Like how do you restrain yourself from trying to score points on a sincere but misguided interlocutor when, if you were nice, you might both learn something?
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It’s not about keeping it in check, just orienting toward longer-term goals. Tell your ego that by being nice, not only could you learn something useful for status-boosting, but you could gain an ally, plus the admiration of onlookers.
I like the idea of being partners with your ego, I associate that with tantric buddhism
