Tip #3: Control your Ego! Don't let it get ugly and big! It’s one thing to have a healthy ego, which means you like what you do and enjoy what you do, and feel good and ready to play, but a inflated ego constantly needs feeding. You need to be better than everybody else or you don’t feel good. You either need to knock everybody else down to let everybody know how much better and hip you are, or, you need to boost yourself up by letting people know your resume when they first meet you. You know the type...”Hey man how you been doing?” Answer...”Aw man, I’m working all the time. I’m on the road with Shelia E, Mariah Carey, Elton John and Engelburt Humperdink all at the same time! Everybody loves me and I’m playing with everybody!! My life is so incredible!!” And after that, every conversation they find some kind of way to come back to who they are working with again. “Why when I was with The Spice Girls...what we did was....By the way, Did I mention I was with the Spice Girls and they paid me more than everybody else in the band!!”
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