Dr. Tabatha Barber remembers becoming aware of her ego at age six during meditation. She describes how ego drives relentless achievement and external success, but leaves you perpetually unsatisfied. That dissatisfaction is the signal that ego, not your soul, is steering.
I love how you said let the ego die. I'm giving a TED Talk in Italy next month. Let's go. And I'm talking about the ego. And the ego shows up in our life. It's usually mine. I was doing some meditation and mine showed up around 6 years old. And I remember the moment that it happened and something happened in my life and I was like, I am never going to feel this way again. So we are going to prove ourselves. Yeah, we are going to be better. We are going to achieve, achieve, achieve. And when the ego's living your life and you're showing up in that way, yes, you will achieve a lot and you can have some great success, but you'll have moments where you're like, wait a minute, this doesn't feel how I thought it would feel. And that's when you know that your ego's leading and not your soul. Right? Because it's not actually satisfying.
