010: Your Ego is Your Reality & Being a Slave to Your Ego

Pondered for years by many of the most brilliant minds, the human ego is difficult to understand and define. From Sigmund Freud’s description of the ego as a synthesized, selective conscious to modern neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran’s simplification of the ego as an elaborate illusion created by the brain, the ego’s influence on the human condition has been a hot topic for a long time. 

In this episode, you’ll learn about the human ego. The good, the bad, how its formed, how I have been a slave to my ego my entire life, and how you can begin to confront your ego by asking yourself three simple questions.

Topics:
[2:59] Understanding the ego: Jung, Freud, and others
[5:30] Self-loss and ego dissolution
[6:58] “I am not who you think I am”
[8:17] Envy, Insecurity, and Fragility
[9:52] Self-Manifestation: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade
[12:48] My whole life, I was a slave to my ego
[18:16] Three questions to ask yourself today

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