Anyone can learn to manage their ego.
Analysis
Becoming a student or finding a mentor is one of the most helpful ways to cultivate humility and emphasize ongoing work over achievement. To remain humble, individuals should prioritize learning as a lifelong process with no graduation date.
Some of the most successful people today reached their goals by remaining humble enough to seek mentors, choosing to learn from others instead of listening only to their own egos. Oprah Winfrey, a self-made billionaire whom many people might consider successful enough to require no words of wisdom from a mentor, credits much of her development to her mentor-mentee relationship with acclaimed poet Maya Angelou. When Angelou died in 2014, Oprah wrote of her mentor, “The world knows her as a poet but at the heart of her, she was a teacher. ‘When you learn, teach. When you get, give’ is one of my best lessons from her.” [9] Although Oprah’s career might be an unusual place to seek examples of humility, given that she presides over an eponymous magazine featuring an image of herself on the cover each month, the core of her fame is built on her continued ability to remain in touch with her audience and to share with them what she learns from others.