A brief YouTube #short in which the speaker (Eric Deeran) shares a personal anecdote about receiving a hostile comment and reflects that ego — believing you already know everything — blocks learning and personal growth. The speaker identifies ego as a common barrier that keeps people from improving.
The other day I got a comment that basically said, hey, F you, what you're teaching is stupid. Which I always think is funny because they always make great videos. The thing that I think holds a lot of people back, and definitely held me back in the beginning, was that I was so focused on my own ego. I thought I knew everything, and I thought no one else had anything to teach me that that was actually what was holding me back, and that was what was holding this individual back as well. And unfortunately, like a lot of people are that way. They get stuck because they think that they know everything, when in reality they don't. And that's what's holding them back from growing the.
