title: Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice: 2nd Edition
author:  Eda G. Goldstein 
description: Dr. Eda G. Goldstein is a professor at the New York University Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work.
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  Meetings at 6 rue des Colonels-Renard, Paris  
  (Gurdjieff’s Paris apartment) 
  1938  
  with Mme de Salzmann assisting 
  
  MEETING ONE 
  Questioner: 
   Something intolerable happens in my work. In spite 
  of my efforts I cannot remember myself; to get a better quality. It's 
  useless to set myself hours of work by the clock. I get no result. Why? 
  Gurdjieff: 
  That comes from your egoism. Particularly big egoism 
  in which you have lived till now. You are enclosed in it; you must get 
  out of it. To get out, you must learn to work. Not only for yourself 
  alone, but for others. You began with work on your parents. You 
  must change your task. Take a new one, the same one [but] with the 
  neighbor, no matter who, all beings, or choose from the people 
  amongst you. You must work for yourself through the aim of being 
  able to help them. This alone will struggle against egoism. I see that 
  you both have a very bad past, a particular egoism. All the old mate- 
  rial comes to the fore. T