Is your Mind your worst enemy or best ally?
Has EGO sabotaged your success before?
***A THREAD*** 👇👇
✅Ego, Id, Superego
✅Confidence v Competence
✅Ego in Relationships
✅Ego in Business
EGO, SUPEREGO, ID
✅ID = Primitive, Hind Brain
Emotion, Instinct, Passion
✅SUPEREGO = Subconcious frame of mind
"Conscience",
Socially constructed (Parents, etc.)
"Ideal Self"
✅EGO = Reason over Passion
Meditates: ID and Superego
Responds to External World
REALITY PRINCIPLE
Vs
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
✅Reality --> EGO --> Deferred Gratification
*External World restrains Pleasure under social conditioning*
✅Pleasure --> ID --> Instant Gratification
✅Morality --> SUPEREGO --> Suppress Desires
Sigmund Freud's Personality Matrix
Example --> Young, Married Man sees a pretty girl
✅ID: Wants her, primal urge to reproduce
✅Superego: Guilt/Shame from breaking marital vows
✅Ego: Makes a plan to restrain sexual urge OR makes a plan to have cheat on wife discreetly
Iceberg Model of EGO
✅ID exists at Birth, BAse Human Instinct
✅Superego is learned (subconsciously)
society, parents, teachers, etc.
✅Ego is reasoning to reconcile the conflict
DUNNING-KRUGER Effect
✅Confidence v Competence
✅Applies to all Domains
✅"Those who know the least are most confident"
✅"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know:
DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT
Substack Article / THREAD
EGO in Relationships
Positional Bargaining, Control, Zero-Sum
Vs
Express Love, No Expectation of Reciprocation
4 Types of EGO
*Non-Exhaustive List
*Derives from Childhood -->
✅Dominated
✅Lack of Belonging
✅Hopelessness
✅Rejection
ABUNDANCE v SCARCITY MINDSET
"Life is 10% what happens and 90% how you react"
Reaction --> EGO = Superego v ID
Memento Mori - "Remember Death"
Nothing Matters = 2 most terrifying yet inspiring words
Mortality drives most decision making
How do you treat others knowing your time is limited...and their time is limited?
Tools for Managing Ego
EGO DEATH
✅Loss of Sense of Separate Self
✅Feeling of interconnectedness with Universe
Causes:
✅Strong Macrodose Psychedelics
✅Near-Death Experience
✅Progressive Meditation, Personal Struggle
Rebirth, Transformation, Expanded Awareness
Requires Dissolution of YOUR EGO
EGO is the Fog of our Conscious Mind
EGO in BUSINESS
✅Abundance v Scarcity Mindset
✅Zero-Sum v Positive-Sum Game
✅Sharing Value v Hoarding Value
@BowTiedJungle Anon Cartoon Animals reciprocate value and grow stronger one tweet at a time
Crypto Twitter plays like a zero-sum game
EGO in Leadership
Build a "Circle of Safety" (Simon Sinek)
Higher Self: Promote the Wolf Pack
EGO: Lone Wolf exploits the group
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