•1 Self-esteem a.k.a. ego has two goals: (1) prevent becoming negative mental content; (2) work to become positive mental content.
•2 Self-esteem defends against being negative mental content using many methods including covering, hiding, faking, and lying.
•3 Self-esteem claims to be positive mental content mainly by attaching to and identifying with it.
•4 Self-esteem has no interest in the truth that you can never be your contents since you are the container of contents as they come and go throughout your life.
•5 Self-esteem has no interest in giving up its desire to appear better and superior to others, which means ego is always finding ways to make others look worse and inferior to you.