“Sanjeev, in which semester are you guys
taught the subject ‘Ego’?” was a typical question of Mr. G, my boss and the All
India Sales Manager for the no.1 furniture brand. No points for guessing what
prompted this. Yes, another humbling meeting at an architect’s office, where
Mr. IIT+ IIM Hot Shot was made to wait and was quizzed by kids lesser than him
in age, qualification, salary and (his definition of) intelligence.
In implying that architects have big egos, he must have been
right. After all, isn’t this blogger spending more time taking a shot at a ‘Non
Architect’?
So what is this ‘Ego’ we are talking about? We could look at
what Wikipedia says, what the dictionary, Dr. Freud says, or what Mr. Google
says.
But should we?
If we don’t need any research to be an undisputed expert on
multi-billion industries like sports and films, why not offer an opinion on
what we live with 24x7?
Somebody once said….OK let’s get true here. Somebody liked
(in real life) what I said about Ego, which is:
“Ego is that helmet by
which we guard the weak parts of our psyche.”
In other words, Ego covers up our insecurities.
Going by that, the architect has loads to cover up.
Yup, loads of insecurities……..let’s look at them in our blog
‘Architect! Thy name is Insecurity.’
