Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)
by pengaru on Sunday July 12, 2020 @12:27AM
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> Ego is important because it allows you to seriously attempt problems that many people would consider beyond them.
This implies that a lack of ego will prevent you from attempting the same thing.
One doesn't need ego to have a healthy awareness of how significant factors like self-discipline, timing, opportunity, privilege, access to resources, and myriad others can be when it comes to success.
Ego probably helps in cases where the investment of time and effort is irrational. Of course, for most people, that's not really 'helping' at all, since they end up investing too much time and effort in hopeless projects. But I guess a few egotistical people luck out and succeed at something which they had very little chance of succeeding at.
If you genuinely believe that you can achieve something, you might be willing to sink many months of nonstop work into it despite zero tangible progress. Someone without that ego may not have the tolerance to last that long without progress while still believing it's a good use of time.