Remove Your Ego

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readJun 16, 2022
Photo by Syarafina Yusof on Unsplash

Your ego is an entity of pride that tries to self-sustain you, and therefore itself, by keeping you out of any situations that endanger that pride.

Anything that endangers who you think you are, anything outside your comfort zone, anything you are unfamiliar with and any people, characteristics, actions, thoughts or situations that lead to such things are automatically labelled as “DANGEROUS”.

Many think that the ego is some evil, murky, mucky, disgusting part of us, something that makes us behave in ways that create a lesser self.

It is for that reason that most do not like the ego that is behind everything, because it robs us of who we think we truly are.

As such, it would make sense to try and find a way to live without the ego; be that destroying it, letting it go, or removing it from our life in another way.

The problem that most people do not see is that the ego is us.

The ego is part of who we are and will be for as long as we exist in this world.

For to be without the ego would be to be without a sense of self, it would be to live as a water droplet in an ocean, indistinguishable from everything else.

To us, as humans, that cannot happen.

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"