Thread by @bowtiedbarbary

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

https://twitter.com/BowTiedBarbary/status/1407248755326435333?s=20

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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