How to Quiet Your Ego (Without Losing Yourself)
Most people think ego is either something you need to kill off entirely or inflate to take over the world. Both are wrong. In this episode, we dig deep into what ego actually is—how it evolved, why it matters, and how it secretly runs your life without you realizing it.We hit Freud, Buddhism, David Hume, Jung’s shadow self, and even the Navy SEALs to unpack why your ego isn’t always the enemy—it’s mostly just misunderstood. Then we get into how to quiet your ego without losing your identity, and yes, we talk psychedelics, too. This is everything you were never taught about ego—but should’ve been.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
3:31 Chapter 1: Defining the Indefinable — What Is the Ego?
3:33 Napoleon + Gary Snyder
10:15 The Architecture and Function of the Ego
27:15 What is a Healthy Ego?
36:14 The Philosophical Divide: Two Cultures, Two Selves
49:29 Chapter 2: The Ego’s Evolutionary Architecture — How Evolution Built the Self
49:33 Why Evolution Invented “I”
51:46 The Architecture of the Ego: From Refl ex to Reflection
1:00:33 The First Fall: When Knowing Became Our Burden
1:09:07 Why Evolution Built the Ego
1:13:08 Chapter 3: When the Ego Becomes a Tyrant
1:13:20 The Anatomy of Ego Tyranny
1:19:05 Recognizing and Disarming the Inner Dictator
1:47:29 Chapter 4: The Quiet Ego — Beyond a Strong Ego
1:47:34 When Quieter Means Stronger
1:50:58 The Science and Structure of the Quiet Ego
1:57:16 Cultivating a Quiet Ego
2:01:08 Benefits of a Quiet Ego
2:04:27 Chapter 5: The Chemical Dissolution: Ego Death and Psychedelics
2:23:16 Chapter 6: 80/20 Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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