The pain of becoming yourself

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you want 2026 to be the year of your life where everything changes and you become the best, highest performing version of yourself, I'm running a free two day live workshop on how to build yourself into a high performer. To learn more about it and register for free, you can go to 2026workshop.com. Once again, twenty twenty six workshop dot com. Today, we're gonna be talking about how to use your ego for good. Now when we hear the word ego, the way I've always seen it as I was growing up is it has a bad connotation with it. We hear things like, oh, you know, his ego is just way too big or her ego was taking over or that's just, that's just their ego talking. That's that's his he his egoic side. But if you look at the ego and this is one of the things I want you to really start to understand. If you look at it in a different light, is it possible that we could use this ego for good? And so I wanna talk about how do you use your ego as a tool for your tool belt so that you can use it when you need it and then put it away when you don't need it. And I was, part of a podcast interview where a lady was talking to me about, like, well, how do you get rid of your ego? And I started telling her this, and she's like, that's that's amazing. I've never thought about it that way. And so if it's possible that our ego will never go away, which I think that it is possible that our ego will never go away, it's always gonna be there. Even if we work on it, it might get a little bit quieter. It's still going to exist. It's actually part of our psychological makeup. And if we can't get rid of our ego, is it possible that we can accept it and then use it for good? And I think that it is. And I've I've told this story before, and where this really came to light for me is when I was writing my book, level up. And I was writing the book, and I started thinking to myself, like, I was editing every single word, and I was going through and trying to make it perfect. I was adding to it. I was subtracting to it. I was changing the words around to make them better. And I remember I was sitting there, and I was in my office, and I was thinking to myself, I'm just trying to create the best book that I can. And, you know, the better that the book is, the more it will …