Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

How Being Miserable Can Become an Ego Identity

11 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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This is a short excerpt from a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle titled "How Being Miserable Can Become an Ego Identity." Tolle explains how people can adopt a sense of being "special" by being "specially miserable," using misery as a form of self-assertion that attracts attention when they describe how miserable they are.

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