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You don't make mistakes in your own values.

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You only think you made a mistake when you did an action that was inspiring to

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you that went against the values of some authority.

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Today's topic is on something that I think you'll

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find more than fascinating.

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Freud used the terms, ego,

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id and super ego.

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It was called the tripartite aspect of the psyche.

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He broke the psyche down into these components.

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This has led to much confusion of people throughout the

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next decades to follow.

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And there've been many interpretations of what these mean and what they

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represent. And I've seen many pieces of literature,

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particularly Eastern mysticism that has said we need to get rid of our ego and

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the ego is bad and you know, you've got a big ego and, they've used these terms,

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in my opinion, out of context.

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And I I'd like to do my best to try to clarify what

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these components meant.

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Put it into a model that will make them very sensible and

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show you how they overlap with the things that I've been presenting many times

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on values. So if you've got your pen and paper or your note pad,

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or somehow to take notes,

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I'd be feeling you probably want to have these notes and use them,

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interacting with other people. Now,

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in order to do it justice,

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it would be wise to start with the area of human values,

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because that's really where this comes from.

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No drive in human beings comes without looking at human values.

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So, every human being has a set of priorities,

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a set of values, things that are most to least important in their life.

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And whatever is highest on an individual's values,

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they are spontaneously inspired from within to pursue them

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and fulfill them.

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But whatever's low or lower on their values,

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they tend to procrastinate, hesitate, and frustrate in the pursuit of them.

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And they'll require extrinsic motivation to get them to do it,

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a punishment if they don't do it,

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a reward if they do is almost required for them to keep being reminded and

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motivated to do it.

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But you are intrinsically called and spontaneously active on the

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things that are really important to you.

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And because the things that are really important to you, you excel at,

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you tend to expand, you tend to achieve.

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This highest value is one of the most important things to identify in your

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life and to structure your life around. Your identity revolves around it.

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Where you learn most revolves around it,

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what you have as a purpose revolves around it.

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It's a crucial component of mastery. Now,

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Freud,

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if you were to superimpose Freud's language on top of the hierarchy of values

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that each individual has,

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the expression and fulfillment of your highest value is what he would call the

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true ego. Ego just means I or self,

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true self.

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Now sometimes Eastern mystics wants you to think that you want to get rid of

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your ego,

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you want to get rid of your mind and you want to be just spiritual and this kind

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of thing. But I dare you to fulfill that and pull it off.

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I've seen mystics spend their whole life doing that,

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and they still have a mind and they still have their ego.

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And so that's delusional at best.

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And misleading at most and very commonly sells to people that are new on the

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journey. But your ego, true ego is just yourself.

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It's your essential self.

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Not just your existential volatile,

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personas and masks that you wear during the day, but your essential self,

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the true you when you're in tears of gratitude, you're authentic,

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you're not judging,

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you're embracing yourself and others and you're seeing things the

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way they are, where there's nothing to fix or change, you're just,

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you're in an awe state of thanks. That's your essential self.

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So when you're living in alignment and congruent with what you value most,

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because you're willing to embrace both pain and pleasure in it,

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it's so important to you that it doesn't matter what the obstacles are,

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you'll turn them into opportunities, you'll see it as feedback, not failure,

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you have a more objective view and embrace both sides of life and see both

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sides. And so in the area of your highest values,

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this is what Freud was calling the true ego. So in my case, I'm dedicated,

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I have a high value on teaching and learning as you probably guessed and as a

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result of it,

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when I'm teaching and I'm researching and I'm sharing what I discover,

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and I'm inspired by that, and I get to do what I love to do every day doing it,

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this is when I'm being true to myself, my true self, my true I,

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my true ego.

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And I don't think there's anybody that doesn't want to live that way. In fact,

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because your values are unique and you have a hierarchy values that are

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completely fingerprint specific,

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when you are living in alignment and congruent with what those

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highest values are,

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you automatically make the biggest difference because

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to conforming to other people, you're being unique to you.

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And you're pursuing what's most meaningful, inspiring to you.

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And this is where you're most disciplined, reliable, and focused,

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and tend to achieve more and expand yourself.

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And when you go and pursue that when you achieve more,

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you tend to want achieve even more and you want to tackle more challenges and

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you gain confidence and you wake up a leader and you emerge as an authentic

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individual.

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And this is the true ego and Freud was trying to get people to get in that

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state. And there's nothing unwise about that.

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And many people have confused because that's the area where we expand and

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achieve more,

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that was misconstrued by a puffing

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yourself up and making yourself bigger than you are. That's not the true ego.

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That's a false pride position confused with the true ego that Freud was

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trying to reference. So if you're trying to get rid of your ego,

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you're trying to get rid of your authentic self and that's kind of foolish.

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So your real self is an expression.

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Now you could get really esoteric and you could say, well,

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if I'm in a deep meditation,

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I'm in a transcendent state and I'm not even attached to a form and I can go

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beyond that. I can go beyond my identification of the ego.

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Well, that's maybe true for a moment,

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but you're not going to spend your life there.

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You're not going to get much done. You're just going to sit and meditate.

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If you think that that's the way to live your life, well,

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then go off to the mountains somewhere,

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but that's not going to make you self-actualize and

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wont give you fulfillment.

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Your fulfillment will also come from making a contribution to people and

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engaging, and interacting and reflecting and learning and many other things.

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So I'm not in favor of escapism,

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confused with spiritual paths.

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I'm interested in helping you master your life and maximize your potential.

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In all my programs, including the Breakthrough Experience,

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which is my signature program, that's the primary aim.

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The primary objective is to give you a strategy and permission, if you will,

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to yourself, to live an authentic self,

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the essential self and access your ground of being in your daily life and not

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escape. Now that's the ego.

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The ego is not something you need to get rid of. In fact,

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you won't ever get rid of it.

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And anybody who claims to have gotten rid of it is delusional.

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You're not going to.,

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You may get rid of your personas and your masks and facades and puffed up state,

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but you're not going to get rid of your essential self,

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and you have no reason to. Now there's also the id.

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Now the id, Freud called the impulsive, instinctual,

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reactive, kind of animal reactions.

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And this is the immediate gratifying,

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hedonic pursuing, addictive kind of personality.

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And this is the kind of the ungoverned, uncontrolled, immediate gratifying part.

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So when we're living, or attempting to live, in other people's values,

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so let's say we walk in a mall and we meet somebody and we think, well,

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they're smarter, they're more intelligent, they're more successful,

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they have more money, they have more stable relationship,

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they're more socially savvy, they're more physically fit,

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they're more spiritually aware.

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The moment we see them and compare ourselves to them

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and minimize ourselves in comparison and kind of envy them and try to imitate

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him. We'll inject their values into our life,

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confuse ourself about what's really important.

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I've been doing Value Determination process in the Breakthrough Experience and

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online for many, many years, over 42 years I've been studying values,

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and many people, if I ask them what their values are,

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they'll tell you social idealisms that everybody expects of them,

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instead of looking at what their life demonstrates.

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So the moment you subordinate to other people,

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and you're too humble to admit what you see in the people around you,

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inside you,

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and kind of minimize yourself and shrink instead of stand up and expand,

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which is your true self,

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what happens is when you inject those values,

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you cloud the clarity of your own mission and purpose,

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which is your highest value, which is your identity, your true identity,

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and you automatically shrink. And that's why they call them shrinks,

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going to the shrink.

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You're going to somebody who's going to buy into your message and your illusion

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of your shrunkness.

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And what's interesting is that when you're not living by your highest values,

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you're unfulfilled. And when you're unfulfilled,

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you search for immediate gratification to compensate for that unfulfillment.

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I've said for years in the Breakthrough Experience and help people in the

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Breakthrough Experience transcend these states,

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because what happens is they go through and they go into addictive, impulsive,

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compulsive, immediate gratifying behavior, which is consumption,

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which is fantasy seeking, which is overeating,

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which is purchasing and consumption,

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where they sacrifice their own identity to try to buy into other people's

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identities to feel better about themselves and to stuff them fulfilled because

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they're not fulfilled living by their highest values.

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So they try to fulfill themselves out by consumption and eating and other

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things.

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And these addictive behaviors or dopamine fixes to make them feel temporarily

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high, by sexuality or drugs or whatever, to escape, to get high,

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because they're unfulfilled. And really when we're unfulfilled,

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it's a feedback to us to let us know we're not in our true ego,

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we're not allowing ourselves to pursue what's truly most important and highest

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on our values. It's just a feedback. There's nothing that there's a weakness,

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there's nothing wrong with us really. It's just our body doing its job,

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whenever we're not living by our highest values,

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we create symptoms and we become compulsive and unfulfilled and we want to

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go live off other people's accomplishments.

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We become worshipers instead of becoming the hero,

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and we buy things and blow our wealth,

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instead of building a brand around ourselves,

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we live vicariously through other people's brands because we're minimizing

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ourselves. And this immediate gratifying, impulsive,

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instinctual to avoid discomfort and pain and impulse to get pleasure

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quickly is the id. That's why you shrink in that area.

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Because whenever you're living by lower values, you procrastinate, hesitate,

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frustrate. You don't achieve. You doubt yourself. You even brain offload.

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That's why you give power to everybody else,

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and want their decisions to make decisions for you and that's why you become

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part of the herd there. And this is where you shrink and lose your power,

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at least temporarily, unless you listen to the symptoms and go back to priority.

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So if you're not living your life by highest priority actions that wake up the

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true ego, and filling your day with things that inspire you,

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that you know your life revolves around,

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you're going to end up beating yourself up. And you're designed to.

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You're designed to self depreciate anytime you try to live by lower values.

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So the moment you subordinate to other people, compare yourself to them,

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minimize you, inject their values, try to live in their values,

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scatter yourself from your own highest value which is where your true ego is,

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you're going to wake up your id. And your id is the idiot,

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the shrunken psyche,

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iota means tiny and id means the smaller

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aspect of our nature, you might say, the impulsive part of our nature,

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and we let our amygdala run our life instead of our executive center.

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When we live by our highest values the blood glucose and oxygen goes into the

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executive center and our brain gets inspired vision, strategic planning,

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executing of plans, self-governance and mastery.

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But when we try to live in lower values because of comparison of the people,

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because we judge instead of love, doing what we love we tend not to judge,

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if we do what we judge, we tend not to love.

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When we're going through and judging, compare ourselves,

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trying to change others to be like us, which is futile,

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or trying to change us to be like others, which is futile,

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we wake up the id and we end up an idiot.

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Because it's an idiot to try to think that we can make other people live in our

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values or we can live in other people's values. We're not going to.

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Every decision you make is based on what you believe will give you the greatest

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advantage over disadvantage in the moment to your own values.

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And if you don't know what your highest values are,

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that's when you'll brain offload and you'll let other people make decisions for

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you. And then you'll live with shoulds and ought to's,

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and supposed to's and got to's and have to's, and musts and need to's,

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which are imperative languages,

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which means that there's people on the outside running you instead of you

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running you. And that's where you're disempowered. That's when you can't,

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I mean, in the Breakthrough Experience program,

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which I've taught for 32 years almost,

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I've asked people to write down what they want to dedicate their life to,

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and be surprised how many people have difficulty having clarity about what they

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want. And deep inside in their heart,

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their true highest value and ego knows.

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But all of the inculcation,

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all the injected values of all the things cloud it and they're frightened,

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and they're fearing rejection from all their authorities around them.

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And they're holding themselves back and they saying, 'I don't know',

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but the truth is you do know. Don't let any part of yourself,

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don't let any other person,

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individual around you think you don't know,

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because the truth is you do.

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I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience and have people that come in

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there every week and they say, 'I don't know what my mission is',

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and I ask them a set of questions to make them look at what their life

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demonstrates, what they really live, not their fantasies,

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not what they think it should be, and it's very clear what they're committed to,

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but what happens is they basically have this cloudiness only because of the

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comparison.

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We're not here to compare ourselves to others and put people on pedestals or

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pits. We're here to compare our own daily actions to our own highest value.

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So we can live authentically by our true essential self, our true ego.

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So our id is the result of not living congruently with our highest value.

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There's an old proverb that I stated for many times,

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if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

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that wake up your true, authentic self,

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your day is going to fill up with low priority distractions because you're going

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to brain offload and you're going to hesitate, procrastinate,

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and you're going to end up with depreciating activities. That's the id.

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And that's why the idiot, which means shrunken psyche, is the result.

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You shrink yourself instead of shine, and we're not here to shrink.

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We're here to shine. Now what's the superego?

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Freud basically described the superego as the moralizing force inside us that

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kind of whispers to us.

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And I'm gonna have a little difference than what Freud implied,

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because I think he missed something in this.

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But I'll elaborate on what he said and then I'll explain why I'm going to alter

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that. When you're a child, when you're zero to one years old,

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you can poo, you can pee, you can bite, you can scratch, you can throw things,

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you can scream at the top of the lungs, you can not have sleep,

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you can do just about anything and your mom or dad most likely will love you no

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matter what. So you get about a year of unconditional love.

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But the second you stand up, so just remember this, when you're really young,

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don't stand up. I'm joking.

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When you stand up and start scampering around the room and falling over and

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scamper around and start pulling on things and start causing disruption around

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the house, all of a sudden,

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because mom or dad have difficulty controlling that, cause you can get around

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now, not just crawling. Your parents,

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particularly your mom first will say, 'no, no, no, no, no stop stop.

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Yes, yes,

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yes.' And she will start to project her values onto you and

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give the values according to her cause she's ruler of the house.

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And all of a sudden she'll give the rules. Now,

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maybe when dad gets home,

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there may be a new set of rules that's on top of that or maybe adjacent to that,

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but whatever it is,

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there's a set of rules that come home and all of a sudden mothers and fathers

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become the first moralizing, rule making,

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hypocritical construction that now goes on the child.

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So until the child's one,

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it can get away with just about anything and you don't really make a big deal

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out of it. But once it gets one,

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it stands up and starts scampering around and starts tearing things up and

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exploring things and making messes, you start putting as a parent, right,

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wrong, stop, go, et cetera. Once the child,

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because the child's dependent on you gets this jolt that says no and

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it has a natural impulse with its id to want to go and explore pleasure over

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pain, and ease over difficulty,

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the parents now put in a moralizing process when they say no

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and yes. And so now the child, because it fears loss of the parent,

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now inculcates that,

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that's the first subordination to an outer authority that occurs.

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That's the beginning of the superego.

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The superego is the internal moralization where the child has an impulse and it

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also has a true ego and it has an impulse to go for pleasure.

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It has an ego to embrace both things reasonably and to live authentically.

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And then it has a moralizing process that's a first stage of socialization

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that now says, 'thou shalt not do this, and thou shall do this,

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this is the rules of the house', so in order for the child to live in the house,

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because it doesn't really have a,

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probably by one it doesn't have an entrepreneurial position,

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doesn't have its own company yet, It now incorporates that,

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and it has an internal conflict between mom and dad, or at least mom initially,

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and its own impulses and its own highest values.

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And so sometimes it lives by its highest values,

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sometimes it wants to be impulsive and now it's got this moralizing parent,

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that's telling them what it is.

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And the parents sometimes project onto the child,

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what they think needs to be done for the child. But about 80% of the time,

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the things that they're projecting on the child is not necessarily reasonable or

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rational,

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it's to protect the parents from having to face their previous wounds of what

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they are subconsciously storing in their own mind that they feel ashamed about

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or guilt about or frightened of. So they go and put the rules on there,

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basically to stop the child from doing the things that remind them of things

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that they feel guilty about or been hurt by, wounded by.

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And they project their wounds and their guilts onto the child without even

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realizing they doing under the quote of moral development and sometimes moral

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hypocrisies.

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Because sometimes the parent doesn't even do what it's telling the child to do.

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And sometimes the parent,

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a different parent does something different and it confuses the child and of

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course the child then leverages one parent against the other in order to get its

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own ego or its own impulses of the id to be expressed.

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So there's a three-way dynamic going on. The id wants immediate gratification.

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The ego wants to fulfill something deeply meaningful.

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And the moralization is the, now the moralizer that says now,

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thou shalt not do this. So from the first year or so, mommy becomes important.

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Maybe up to two and three daddy starts coming in.

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From that point on then comes preachers or rabbis or gurus or

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whatever,

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and churches and synagogues and temples and things sometimes get that in there.

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And by the time they're four or five, they start getting it from schools.

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And now the teachers and the rabbis and gurus or whatever,

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they all become now moralizers and they project their values onto it.

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So the child's now trying to find its own identity,

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its true nature amongst its own impulses and its

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moralizing constructions.

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And any time it feels a conflict between the things that it's supposed to do

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according to the authorities and what it would love to do,

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the unfulfillment and the frustration makes it go into its id even more.

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So now it just wants immediate gratification to

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conflict. Whenever we feel we're not able to fulfill our highest values,

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we go into immediate gratification.

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And so what happens is then it goes onto preachers teachers, school teachers,

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and through elementary school it's school teachers predominantly and social

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groups, mom and dad, they still have the rule,

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until you can stand on your own two feet and be completely independent,

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they got the rules.

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So you have to figure out how to leverage one of the parents against the other

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parents.

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You have to figure out how to lie in order to not get caught doing what you

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really want to do or your impulses.

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And this moralizing process shows up in you,

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about whoever you given authority to.

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So if you depend on your mommy or you depend on your daddy,

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or you look up to your teacher, whoever you put above you and depend on,

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will inculcate into your psyche and show up as 'I should do this',

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'I should have done this', 'I'm supposed to do this', 'I have to do this',

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'I gotta do this', 'I must do this', 'I need to do this', 'I ought to do this',

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'I have to do this'.

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All of those imperative languages that you hear in your head are not you,

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the true ego, the true essential self speaking.

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It is the injected values of some outer authority,

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could be mom all the way up to some school teacher et cetera.

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When you get to 13 to maybe 18 it now becomes social cliques,

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groups that you associate with and maybe a teacher, you may get a job,

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it may be a boss. And then you graduate from that and you go on to college,

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it may be professors or it may be bosses that you work for.

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And your parents may fade a bit, or you may keep it in there.

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Bowen says that many times people never get past the parent's stage of moral

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development.

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And Kohlberg says that that immediate gratification or the inculcation

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of the individual authorities of mothers, fathers, preachers, teachers,

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some people never get beyond that.

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And they get trapped trying to please their parents all their life,

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or they get trapped trying to please little societies

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sacrificing life to try to fit in for fear of rejection in society.

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And this is the stages of moral development. And what happens,

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these are all layers of the superego coming in.

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Eventually you get to a point where you go on and you start your own company and

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don't work for somebody else. And now your boss doesn't become your authority.

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Your teacher doesn't become your authority.

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Your parents may not even become your authority. 'Oh, I'll think about it,

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mom and dad, I may consider that'.

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And you be start to become more of an authority,

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but now the people that run your industry,

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the people that oversee your companies,

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the people that are in local governments and mid governements and you know,

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whole national governments or global rules,

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they now are who you subordinate to.

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So you're working your way up a social ladder of people you subordinate to.

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If you open up a franchise,

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the teacher now invites you to school and you get to set the rules.

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You get to tell people what you do. The teacher listens to you.

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If you get to grow your business nationally,

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then the mayor wants you to come and visit him.

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The governor wants to say hi and take a picture with you.

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And the people that make the rules now want to listen to you and you get to

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influence the rules.

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And so all of a sudden you're gradually liberating yourself from subordinating

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to the super egos of all the people you've injected values from.

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And eventually you're rising up and starting to get what Kholberg calls

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transcendence. But eventually you get to a global franchise,

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let's say you have a company that's global and now the presidents want to meet

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you and now you're a celebrity in the world. Now you're setting the rules.

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People want to follow what you're doing instead of you having to follow

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everybody else's. Eventually you reached a point of transcendence.

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If you get there, most people don't. But if you did,

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in the Breakthrough Experience program that's exactly what I teach people to do,

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how to transcend the outer influences of these moral

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constructs, which are hypocrisies in many case because the people even,

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who put those on you, aren't even living them half the time as MacIntyre shows.

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And so what happens is you're going in and you're basically trying to live by

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something that nobody lives by,

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thinking you're going to get some sort of points by being acknowledged,

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and then you realize that the spectrum of values across the world and you can't

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please everybody,

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and you eventually get to a point maybe by your mid forties or whatever you go,

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'I have an identity crisis. What the hell do I really want in life?

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I'm halfway through the game now.' And hopefully you emerge. If not,

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you're stuck and your superego rules you and you have this internal conflict and

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this masochism between the superego that basically tells you how you should be

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and you block the expression of your own original thinking and you fit

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into what Becker would call the collective heroism and become part of the

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collective herd. Because you're afraid of being rejected.

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You can't make decisions on your own because of the internal conflict and the

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cloudiness and you're trapped. And there's no reason you have to be. So

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what I'm going to summarize is this,

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the super ego is the internalization of some outer authorities values that

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you've injected into your life,

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which creates entropic disorder in your life and conflict inside you

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between what you truly would love to do,

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which is your essential self and your true ego, and now

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this moralizing process. And what's interesting is,

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and this is where people have gotten stray,

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whenever you abide by the things that the injected value, the authority

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of the injected values came from,

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let's say you look up to somebody and now you now live in that value for the day

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you feel proud and that proud is the false ego.

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And then when you don't do it, you feel shamed.

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And so what happens is you create these bipolar nature of pride and shame,

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trying to subordinate and sacrifice your true identity,

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your true ego for the false ego of being a good person and getting acknowledged

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by people who've got a different set of values than you.

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And you live maybe feeling proud and putting on a facade,

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but you have an internal conflict because the true you is not able to come to

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the surface, you're afraid now.

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You've been so acknowledged for being a good person in this society that you've

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lost yourself. You lost your soul if you will. Having the courage,

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you know, you can walk on coals, you can go and jump bungee jumps,

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you can do you know, rope climbs,

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you can do all kinds of gimmicks out thereto metaphorize

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courage. But the real courage in life,

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as I teach in the Breakthrough Experience is being able to walk the path of your

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authentic self. That's what the Breakthrough's about,

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that's what all my programs are about.

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Everything I'm doing on these weekly programs is for that.

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So as long as you're subordinating to outer authority and comparing yourself to

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others and putting them on pedestals and minimizing yourself and injecting their

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values,

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you're going to have an internal conflict between your true highest value and

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your true ego and the expression of a spontaneous inspired life,

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where you delegate lower priority things that devalue you and get on with the

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things that you are inspired by that make the biggest difference that make more

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meaning out of your life.

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You're going to have the inculcation of these values from outer authorities and

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be trapped with an internal conflict.

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And as a compensation for that to escape the conflict,

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you go to the id and you go and you try to get immediate gratification.

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And 99% of the population in economics are consumers of other

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people's brands to make them temporarily feel better about themselves because of

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this. They do the same thing.

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That's why very few people become the gold medalist or the great Nobel prize

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winners of the great leaders in business or spiritual leaders or whatever,

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because they haven't got the courage to be themselves.

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They're worried about fitting in instead of standing out.

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But the willingness to walk the path of the unborrowed visionary in the pursuit

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of an authentic expression of your own identity and make the difference.

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How are you going to make a difference fitting in?

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You're going to make a different standing out.

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That is what the Breakthrough Experience is about.

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That's what all my programs are about.

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To give you the tools and science of how to do that.

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And it's not really that difficult once you're aware of what's going on in your

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psyche. Your words inside you speak, whenever you hear yourself saying,

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'I should', 'I ought to', 'I supposed to', 'I got to', 'I have to', 'I must',

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that is not you. You don't should yourself.

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You don't make mistake in your own values.

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You only think you made a mistake when you did an action that was inspiring to

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you that went against the values of some authority and then you beat yourself up

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with shame because now you're giving power to their decisions instead of your

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own. And you offloaded decision-making. And you only project 'should',

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'ought to' onto other people when you're projecting an expectation on them to

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live in your values, which they can't. So ultimately there's no mistakes.

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There's only perceived mistakes when you're trying to live in other people's

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values you'll think you're making mistakes.

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When you're trying to get others to live in your values,

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you'll think they make mistakes.

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But ultimately everybody made a decision based on what they felt was most

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important at that time to their values.

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So the superego is in a sense the dictator

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inside your head, coming from whoever you've given power to as an authority.

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In the Breakthrough Experience what I do is I have a science called the

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Demartini Method and we go in there and level the playing field and own the

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traits of people that we've got above us,

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so we realize that there's nothing missing in us.

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We don't have to minimize ourselves and see that they have something we don't.

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We find out where we have what they have in our own form.

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This is what's the challenge. As Einstein said,

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if you're a cat expecting to swim like a fish,

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you're going to beat yourself up because you don't have the equipment to do the

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fish swimming. And if you're a fish expecting to climb a tree,

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you're going to beat yourself up. And this is what people do.

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They compare themselves to others, expect to live in those people's values,

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beat themselves up, they think they have limited beliefs,

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they think they're sabotaging, they think they're not disciplined,

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they think they keep sabotaging or something of this nature,

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they don't have what it takes, they can't stay focused.

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It's because they're trying to be somebody they're not.

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You don't need to be motivated to be you. You don't need to be reminded.

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The true you is sitting inside surfacing,

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intuitively wanting to express itself and express your genius.

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But the moment we compare ourselves to others,

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instead of compare our daily actions to our own highest values, we cloud it,

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we shroud it, and we give power away. And any area of our life we don't empower,

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somebody's going to overpower.

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And the reason they overpower us is to frustrate us enough,

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to give ourselves permission to be authentic.

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So the id is trying to live by lower values as a result of the

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escape of the suppression that we give ourselves when we try to live in other

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people's values.

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The true ego is living authentically according to what iss really our value,

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highest value, which we spontaneously want to express.

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So if you go on my website and go to the value determination process,

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and look at the top value questions to help you determine what's really

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important to you and start structuring your life on that,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me show you exactly how to do that so you can learn to delegate lower

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priority things and get on doing something deeply meaningful to you,

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that's inspiring, that's unique, that makes the difference.

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And there's no reason why you have to live in this mediocrity.

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You can do something extraordinary, whatever that may be,

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whether it raising a family or going doing something social causes or a business

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or wealth or health or spiritual pursuits,

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whatever it is that's truly highest on your value you deserve to live.

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And there's no reason why you can't. So your ego is your highest value.

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Your id is trying to live by lower values because of the inculcation of outer

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authorities and the superego is those injections from outer authorities that you

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gave power to. So I just wanted to go over those three things,

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because I think that they are good reminders of how to live it.

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And if for some reason you want to know what your values are,

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please go to my website, dr.demartini.com and take advantage of that.

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Please take advantage of these webinars that we do every week that gives you

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just a little stimulus every week to think and expand and to utilize.

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Join me at the Breakthrough Experience.

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I want to be able to take what I know and share it with you.

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Cause I know it works for thousands of people. I know it will work for you.

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It's just a matter of applying it. And you sometimes if you get it,

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the doorbell goes on and all of a sudden a light goes on and you see it.

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Now you can take action, teach you how to prioritize and delegate,

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and also take advantage of our, our Dr. Demartini show,

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the podcast that we do.

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We have a program that's called Clarify Your Goals to Maximize Your Achievement.

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And what we're going to do is show you how to maximize goals that are congruent

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with what you value most.

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So you can wake up your true ego and not let the super egos distract you and get

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caught, puffing yourself up. Whenever we're proud and cocky and self-righteous,

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we tend to project our values onto others and its utility.

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And then any time we beat ourselves up and minimize ourselves,

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cause we're not living in other people's values we think,

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we're going to end up going for impulses and instincts and disempower ourself.

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I want to show you how to set real goals in real time that give real results

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that allow you to live authentically in an inspired way.

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There's absolutely nothing stopping you from doing that,

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except a little education. That education could go a long way.

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Within a tiny seed, lies a mighty oak. And these ideas you know,

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it's time for those ideas in your mind. So please take advantage of that.

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Take advantage of our weekly programs we're doing.

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This one coming up on goals and definitely come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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That's where I can actually take you through it and make you go through the

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process and learn how to master your life so things on the outside don't run the

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vision and the mission on the inside. So until next week, this is Dr. Demartini.

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Thank you for joining me. Thank you for taking some notes, applying it.

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that could have benefited by hearing it,

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what they want to get in life, we get what we want to get in life,

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people. So thank you for being here with me today.

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