How is ego counter-productive?

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For whom? For the ego, ego is very productive. In fact, it has to be, for as soon as it stops being productive, it starts to disappear. It can only exist in productivity.

For you and your well-being it’s extremely counter-productive, because it has a tendency to resist whatever is happening to you and distract you from things that really matter to you in life by focusing on its own productivity.