Ego is the bouncer that keeps new information out of the club.

Protecting how you look to yourself has a cost, and the cost is anything that would require you to revise. New information often arrives as a small insult, since accepting it means admitting you did not already know. So it gets turned away at the door and you never learn it was there. The filter runs without you noticing.

Pay attention this week to the flare of wanting to defend yourself. That flare usually sits directly on top of something worth hearing. You do not have to agree, only to let it in far enough to consider it.