Dave Hughes

And someone said, that guy's like going to be unbelievable.

And I didn't, and it was you.

And from that point on, I've just always sort of followed you because my friend said, that guy's going to be massive.

Just to see your work over the years and how much you've done and then to have this time with you today has been so special.

That is a very true statement.

So, so vulnerable as well.

Like some of the stories he's telling, I was quite in shock.

Well, the thing that stood out for me the most throughout that conversation is something that would be, I think, helpful to address.

I mean, the thing that he has managed to do is let go of ego.

So I thought maybe I could just talk about five strategies for letting go of ego and

oh yeah I'm pretty egoless and then something will happen that hits the ego and I'm like oh that didn't feel good and I realise it's still very much very much there yep what I was thinking of when I was writing this but there are so many different types of ways that our ego can get challenged so it can be if someone says something that we strongly disagree with

or we find ourselves in a disagreement with someone or we hear something said about ourselves that we don't like or there's some kind of confrontation or we have a memory that maybe of an area of our life where we feel like we wish we'd done better i just think there's lots of examples when it comes up so you'll have to sort of try and apply this to situations where you feel like they arise in your life so i've done five before i'll say four and a half the fifth one is

Slightly tongue in cheek, but like also true.

So number one, letting go of ego.

Pause before reacting.

So in a situation that someone disagrees with you or someone said something you don't like,

A three-second deep breath in and out ensures that you don't respond from a place of ego, which is often either like defensive or escalating the situation.

And instead, the pause allows you to, I think, first of all, come across as a really wise person, which is cool, but also make sure you respond from a place of like a calm place.

And that's often really, really disarming.

The example I want to give you is I've thought about this a lot and I see it a lot.