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Ego is the enemy “ I want to make a confession, it's been many years twenty to be exact when I was in my twenties when one of my colleagues described me to be an I specialist . Everything that I talked about was about me, it was always what I was feeling, what I did, how much I worked out, what I wanted. The appraisal was dismissed by me at that times as something that was beyond my understanding but as the years passed there was a pattern in my thinking that, that all my life I have been an extremely self-obsessed and unknowingly have been self-sabotaging all my endeavours. What was the inflated sense of self that had slowly taken over me even without me realising it?  Every small accomplishment made make me think very highly of myself, and every time I failed, there was a sense, that some injustice had been done to me. These words are no exaggeration; I have actually felt these emotions and these feelings. How to deal with them have been very brilliantly brought out ...

THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY As far back I can see in my life, it has always been chasing some goal or the other. Some of them have been silly, some slightly bigger. If I can summarise in a sentence then; my life has been, a story of mediocre existence punctuated by flashes of transient pleasure. As we grow older cynicism at times takes hold of you. The values that you had as a young person starts to get eroded and you start to realise and reflect on the prejudice in the world. By no standards, I think myself as a success story, but at the same time, aspiring working hard, and tying my happiness to an external result has been a repetitive cycle in my life.   I am sure there is a better way to live and excel in life. We need to look at our value systems and the world around us, and despite all the negativity that we need to be fair, compassionate and virtuous. This is where I have found the Stoic way of thinking as a refuge for my own self-doubts and anxieties.   This i...