Loss of morale is what undermines the persistant efforts needed to make great things happen.
Having a healthy ego and doing objectively great things to feel good is not in itself 'toxicity' that must be 'killed'.
Having a healthy ego and doing objectively great things to feel good is not in itself 'toxicity' that must be 'killed'.
In pop culture ego is conflated with what Heinz Kohut or other modern psychoanalyst would call narcissistic disturbance and has to do with instability of the self-image. Even high functioning people teeter on the edge of feelings of grandiosity and worthlessness.
It is not a ‘big ego’ but an undeveloped ego.