Ego Vs Self-Respect || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Ego vs Self-Respect || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Patna (2023)

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00:00Sir, my question is, how thin is the line between ego and self-respect?

00:04Ego and self-respect, they are quite different concepts.

00:10Ego is simply, I exist, I am.

00:13I am by saying, I am a male, I am a student, I am a professional, I am wise, I am smart,

00:20I am handsome, I am distressed, I am suffering, I am happy.

00:23These are all ego statements.

00:25I am X, I am Y, I am Z.

00:28All this is the ego.

00:29Self-respect, that merely means that you are looking at your reflection in the mirror and admiring it.

00:37And irrespective of how you really are or how you look, that's the way several people are, don't you know?

00:43Irrespective of the position they are taking, they keep backing their position.

00:46Irrespective of how foolish their concepts or ideas or dreams or targets are, they keep chasing their dreams.

00:55That's self-respect, a mark of stupidity.