The person who sounds smart doesn’t always know the most.
Confidence is performance. Competence is capacity.
Confidence is obvious. Competence is demonstrated over time.
Confidence gets attention. Competence creates value.
Insights into the idea that confidence isn’t competence.
Have enough ego to believe you earned a seat at the table. By “enough ego,” I mean grounded confidence, not inflated importance.
Have enough humility to remember you didn’t arrive on your own.
Too little ego shrinks you. Too much ego blinds you.
Big ego says, “I’m great and you’re not.”
The issue isn’t if you have ego, it’s how much.
You need enough ego to believe you can make a difference, but not so much that you don’t need others.
Learn 5 practices of healthy ego.
You can’t lift people while looking down on them.
Snobs wear many disguises—good intentions, strong work ethic, noble achievements.
Superiority thrives on comparison—finding someone “less” to feel like “more.”
“Better at” isn’t “better than.”
Spot the signs of snobbery.
Protect your teams from the danger.
Status is more than the way others see you. It governs the way you see the world. It’s a lens you use to see yourself. Loss of standing assaults your confidence. You wonder who you are.
Find answers to the deceptions of status on this post.
You can’t see yourself when you’re full of yourself. You can’t see others clearly. You can’t see the world as it is.
Self-Importance is deadly because it distorts perception.
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