None. Ego is personality, and personality is ego. Personality has nothing to do with what you like. You like apples. Is that your personality? No, of course not. What you like or don’t like may be called individuality, but that’s not personality.

Personality is your psychology. It’s not what you like, it’s how you are with other people. It’s based on how you view yourself in relation to them, how you want to be seen by them, and how they see you. It’s all based on appearances. Deeper still, it’s based on the emotional needs you have, and how you go about trying to have those needs satisfied by other people. Different needs and different strategies give rise to different personalities.

Psychology is basically an attempt at the scientific study of ego. That’s why it’s so famously vague, and often times not considered real science. It has some merit, because there are similarities, but it basically studies human insanity. It is possible to change your personality over the course of your life, and I did it, too, but it’s only changing what’s on the surface. Personality change does not bring lasting happiness.

All personalities are the same, there’s no such thing as a better or worse personality, because they can only exist in opposition to each other, they cannot exist in isolation. For example, you cannot be confident if there are no insecure people. If everyone is confident, confidence can no longer be said to be a personality trait. Personality can only be found in comparisons, you can only be more confident than someone else. If you don’t define yourself in the eyes of others, if you’re whole, you can’t consider yourself neither confident nor insecure, you just are.

Lasting happiness lies beyond the superficiality of a personality. Personality disappears in enlightenment, individuality cannot and does not.