The strong ego is like that—it is a gentle one. It doesn’t have to hurt you in order to make its point. It doesn’t have to be right every step of the way, and it looks for win/win situations. The strong ego fully realizes that we’re all unfinished human beings and that together we might actually get something done. The weak ego, on the other hand, is fragile and supremely unconfident. It’s a bully. It’s all right for it to get hurt, just so long as the other person gets hurt more. The weak ego needs to be right at all costs and will own just about every good idea that comes along, because of
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