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What do you do when someone hurts your ego?

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What do you do when someone hurts your ego?

Assuming that we humans have control over our interpretation of defeat, let’s look at these 8 strategies for overcoming a blow to the ego:

  1. Build your resistance.
  2. Admit that it hurts.
  3. Learn from the experience so that you can lower your chances of defeat in the future.
  4. Understand, and then manage, your emotions.

What happens when ego is hurt?

This is the self-destructive part of your egoic mind (in your brain). When you’re present in the moment with conscious awareness, you can snap out from the hurting past thoughts, that can otherwise lead to hurtful emotions or regretful words, and behaviors. Ego is a cunning imposter.

How do you heal a bruised ego?

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Heal your bruised ego by listing what makes you great. “By writing, we remind ourselves on a deep level that we are, and can be, a valuable employee,” Winch says. “Doing this exercise is a way of self-affirming our worth.”

How do I get my ego back?

Here are 5 things you can do to boost your ego:

  1. Feed it. In order for anything to grow it has to be placed in an environment that is conducive to growth.
  2. Let go of bad habits. Letting go of bad habits helps condition us to create better habits in our daily lives.
  3. Get a pet.
  4. Pump up your appearance.
  5. Walk the walk.

How do I crush my ego?

They work if you work them.

  1. Adopt the beginner’s mindset.
  2. Focus on the effort — not the outcome.
  3. Choose purpose over passion.
  4. Shun the comfort of talking and face the work.
  5. Kill your pride before you lose your head.
  6. Stop telling yourself a story — there is no grand narrative.
  7. Learn to manage (yourself and others).
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How do you hurt someones ego?

Unless, you know, the guy really deserves it.

  1. Point out the gut. Most guys, especially American men, worry about their guts.
  2. Insult his job.
  3. Compare him to an athlete.
  4. Compare him to a musician.
  5. Compare him to his father.
  6. Buy him big clothes.
  7. Compliment someone he hates.
  8. Treat him like he’s poor.

How do you crush a girls ego?

  1. Be confident in yourself and don’t see her as difficult/impossible.
  2. Be very natural and don’t try to impress her.
  3. Don’t be too fast in showing/expressing your interest to her.
  4. Don’t feed her ego by showering her with compliments and much attention.
  5. Maintain an indifferent demeanor when you’re around her.

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