 The ego has bounces because when you get too close to the issue of the ego, it deploys anger and blame and avoidance to protect itself. We send out these little bodyguards to fight off any incoming resistance to our version of us that we want to keep intact because once your ego starts to collapse, you're not sure who you're going to be. And how will you do your day-to-day if you don't do it under those labelling that give you that external identity and ego? So it's job is to keep all that intact. But the ego is about doing. The soul is about being.