You don't make mistakes in your own values.
Speaker:You only think you made a mistake when you did an action that was inspiring to
Speaker:you that went against the values of some authority.
Speaker:Today's topic is on something that I think you'll
Speaker:find more than fascinating.
Speaker:Freud used the terms, ego,
Speaker:id and super ego.
Speaker:It was called the tripartite aspect of the psyche.
Speaker:He broke the psyche down into these components.
Speaker:This has led to much confusion of people throughout the
Speaker:next decades to follow.
Speaker:And there've been many interpretations of what these mean and what they
Speaker:represent. And I've seen many pieces of literature,
Speaker:particularly Eastern mysticism that has said we need to get rid of our ego and
Speaker:the ego is bad and you know, you've got a big ego and, they've used these terms,
Speaker:in my opinion, out of context.
Speaker:And I I'd like to do my best to try to clarify what
Speaker:these components meant.
Speaker:Put it into a model that will make them very sensible and
Speaker:show you how they overlap with the things that I've been presenting many times
Speaker:on values. So if you've got your pen and paper or your note pad,
Speaker:or somehow to take notes,
Speaker:I'd be feeling you probably want to have these notes and use them,
Speaker:interacting with other people. Now,
Speaker:in order to do it justice,
Speaker:it would be wise to start with the area of human values,
Speaker:because that's really where this comes from.
Speaker:No drive in human beings comes without looking at human values.
Speaker:So, every human being has a set of priorities,
Speaker:a set of values, things that are most to least important in their life.
Speaker:And whatever is highest on an individual's values,
Speaker:they are spontaneously inspired from within to pursue them
Speaker:and fulfill them.
Speaker:But whatever's low or lower on their values,
Speaker:they tend to procrastinate, hesitate, and frustrate in the pursuit of them.
Speaker:And they'll require extrinsic motivation to get them to do it,
Speaker:a punishment if they don't do it,
Speaker:a reward if they do is almost required for them to keep being reminded and
Speaker:motivated to do it.
Speaker:But you are intrinsically called and spontaneously active on the
Speaker:things that are really important to you.
Speaker:And because the things that are really important to you, you excel at,
Speaker:you tend to expand, you tend to achieve.
Speaker:This highest value is one of the most important things to identify in your
Speaker:life and to structure your life around. Your identity revolves around it.
Speaker:Where you learn most revolves around it,
Speaker:what you have as a purpose revolves around it.
Speaker:It's a crucial component of mastery. Now,
Speaker:Freud,
Speaker:if you were to superimpose Freud's language on top of the hierarchy of values
Speaker:that each individual has,
Speaker:the expression and fulfillment of your highest value is what he would call the
Speaker:true ego. Ego just means I or self,
Speaker:true self.
Speaker:Now sometimes Eastern mystics wants you to think that you want to get rid of
Speaker:your ego,
Speaker:you want to get rid of your mind and you want to be just spiritual and this kind
Speaker:of thing. But I dare you to fulfill that and pull it off.
Speaker:I've seen mystics spend their whole life doing that,
Speaker:and they still have a mind and they still have their ego.
Speaker:And so that's delusional at best.
Speaker:And misleading at most and very commonly sells to people that are new on the
Speaker:journey. But your ego, true ego is just yourself.
Speaker:It's your essential self.
Speaker:Not just your existential volatile,
Speaker:personas and masks that you wear during the day, but your essential self,
Speaker:the true you when you're in tears of gratitude, you're authentic,
Speaker:you're not judging,
Speaker:you're embracing yourself and others and you're seeing things the
Speaker:way they are, where there's nothing to fix or change, you're just,
Speaker:you're in an awe state of thanks. That's your essential self.
Speaker:So when you're living in alignment and congruent with what you value most,
Speaker:because you're willing to embrace both pain and pleasure in it,
Speaker:it's so important to you that it doesn't matter what the obstacles are,
Speaker:you'll turn them into opportunities, you'll see it as feedback, not failure,
Speaker:you have a more objective view and embrace both sides of life and see both
Speaker:sides. And so in the area of your highest values,
Speaker:this is what Freud was calling the true ego. So in my case, I'm dedicated,
Speaker:I have a high value on teaching and learning as you probably guessed and as a
Speaker:result of it,
Speaker:when I'm teaching and I'm researching and I'm sharing what I discover,
Speaker:and I'm inspired by that, and I get to do what I love to do every day doing it,
Speaker:this is when I'm being true to myself, my true self, my true I,
Speaker:my true ego.
Speaker:And I don't think there's anybody that doesn't want to live that way. In fact,
Speaker:because your values are unique and you have a hierarchy values that are
Speaker:completely fingerprint specific,
Speaker:when you are living in alignment and congruent with what those
Speaker:highest values are,
Speaker:you automatically make the biggest difference because
Speaker:to conforming to other people, you're being unique to you.
Speaker:And you're pursuing what's most meaningful, inspiring to you.
Speaker:And this is where you're most disciplined, reliable, and focused,
Speaker:and tend to achieve more and expand yourself.
Speaker:And when you go and pursue that when you achieve more,
Speaker:you tend to want achieve even more and you want to tackle more challenges and
Speaker:you gain confidence and you wake up a leader and you emerge as an authentic
Speaker:individual.
Speaker:And this is the true ego and Freud was trying to get people to get in that
Speaker:state. And there's nothing unwise about that.
Speaker:And many people have confused because that's the area where we expand and
Speaker:achieve more,
Speaker:that was misconstrued by a puffing
Speaker:yourself up and making yourself bigger than you are. That's not the true ego.
Speaker:That's a false pride position confused with the true ego that Freud was
Speaker:trying to reference. So if you're trying to get rid of your ego,
Speaker:you're trying to get rid of your authentic self and that's kind of foolish.
Speaker:So your real self is an expression.
Speaker:Now you could get really esoteric and you could say, well,
Speaker:if I'm in a deep meditation,
Speaker:I'm in a transcendent state and I'm not even attached to a form and I can go
Speaker:beyond that. I can go beyond my identification of the ego.
Speaker:Well, that's maybe true for a moment,
Speaker:but you're not going to spend your life there.
Speaker:You're not going to get much done. You're just going to sit and meditate.
Speaker:If you think that that's the way to live your life, well,
Speaker:then go off to the mountains somewhere,
Speaker:but that's not going to make you self-actualize and
Speaker:wont give you fulfillment.
Speaker:Your fulfillment will also come from making a contribution to people and
Speaker:engaging, and interacting and reflecting and learning and many other things.
Speaker:So I'm not in favor of escapism,
Speaker:confused with spiritual paths.
Speaker:I'm interested in helping you master your life and maximize your potential.
Speaker:In all my programs, including the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:which is my signature program, that's the primary aim.
Speaker:The primary objective is to give you a strategy and permission, if you will,
Speaker:to yourself, to live an authentic self,
Speaker:the essential self and access your ground of being in your daily life and not
Speaker:escape. Now that's the ego.
Speaker:The ego is not something you need to get rid of. In fact,
Speaker:you won't ever get rid of it.
Speaker:And anybody who claims to have gotten rid of it is delusional.
Speaker:You're not going to.,
Speaker:You may get rid of your personas and your masks and facades and puffed up state,
Speaker:but you're not going to get rid of your essential self,
Speaker:and you have no reason to. Now there's also the id.
Speaker:Now the id, Freud called the impulsive, instinctual,
Speaker:reactive, kind of animal reactions.
Speaker:And this is the immediate gratifying,
Speaker:hedonic pursuing, addictive kind of personality.
Speaker:And this is the kind of the ungoverned, uncontrolled, immediate gratifying part.
Speaker:So when we're living, or attempting to live, in other people's values,
Speaker:so let's say we walk in a mall and we meet somebody and we think, well,
Speaker:they're smarter, they're more intelligent, they're more successful,
Speaker:they have more money, they have more stable relationship,
Speaker:they're more socially savvy, they're more physically fit,
Speaker:they're more spiritually aware.
Speaker:The moment we see them and compare ourselves to them
Speaker:and minimize ourselves in comparison and kind of envy them and try to imitate
Speaker:him. We'll inject their values into our life,
Speaker:confuse ourself about what's really important.
Speaker:I've been doing Value Determination process in the Breakthrough Experience and
Speaker:online for many, many years, over 42 years I've been studying values,
Speaker:and many people, if I ask them what their values are,
Speaker:they'll tell you social idealisms that everybody expects of them,
Speaker:instead of looking at what their life demonstrates.
Speaker:So the moment you subordinate to other people,
Speaker:and you're too humble to admit what you see in the people around you,
Speaker:inside you,
Speaker:and kind of minimize yourself and shrink instead of stand up and expand,
Speaker:which is your true self,
Speaker:what happens is when you inject those values,
Speaker:you cloud the clarity of your own mission and purpose,
Speaker:which is your highest value, which is your identity, your true identity,
Speaker:and you automatically shrink. And that's why they call them shrinks,
Speaker:going to the shrink.
Speaker:You're going to somebody who's going to buy into your message and your illusion
Speaker:of your shrunkness.
Speaker:And what's interesting is that when you're not living by your highest values,
Speaker:you're unfulfilled. And when you're unfulfilled,
Speaker:you search for immediate gratification to compensate for that unfulfillment.
Speaker:I've said for years in the Breakthrough Experience and help people in the
Speaker:Breakthrough Experience transcend these states,
Speaker:because what happens is they go through and they go into addictive, impulsive,
Speaker:compulsive, immediate gratifying behavior, which is consumption,
Speaker:which is fantasy seeking, which is overeating,
Speaker:which is purchasing and consumption,
Speaker:where they sacrifice their own identity to try to buy into other people's
Speaker:identities to feel better about themselves and to stuff them fulfilled because
Speaker:they're not fulfilled living by their highest values.
Speaker:So they try to fulfill themselves out by consumption and eating and other
Speaker:things.
Speaker:And these addictive behaviors or dopamine fixes to make them feel temporarily
Speaker:high, by sexuality or drugs or whatever, to escape, to get high,
Speaker:because they're unfulfilled. And really when we're unfulfilled,
Speaker:it's a feedback to us to let us know we're not in our true ego,
Speaker:we're not allowing ourselves to pursue what's truly most important and highest
Speaker:on our values. It's just a feedback. There's nothing that there's a weakness,
Speaker:there's nothing wrong with us really. It's just our body doing its job,
Speaker:whenever we're not living by our highest values,
Speaker:we create symptoms and we become compulsive and unfulfilled and we want to
Speaker:go live off other people's accomplishments.
Speaker:We become worshipers instead of becoming the hero,
Speaker:and we buy things and blow our wealth,
Speaker:instead of building a brand around ourselves,
Speaker:we live vicariously through other people's brands because we're minimizing
Speaker:ourselves. And this immediate gratifying, impulsive,
Speaker:instinctual to avoid discomfort and pain and impulse to get pleasure
Speaker:quickly is the id. That's why you shrink in that area.
Speaker:Because whenever you're living by lower values, you procrastinate, hesitate,
Speaker:frustrate. You don't achieve. You doubt yourself. You even brain offload.
Speaker:That's why you give power to everybody else,
Speaker:and want their decisions to make decisions for you and that's why you become
Speaker:part of the herd there. And this is where you shrink and lose your power,
Speaker:at least temporarily, unless you listen to the symptoms and go back to priority.
Speaker:So if you're not living your life by highest priority actions that wake up the
Speaker:true ego, and filling your day with things that inspire you,
Speaker:that you know your life revolves around,
Speaker:you're going to end up beating yourself up. And you're designed to.
Speaker:You're designed to self depreciate anytime you try to live by lower values.
Speaker:So the moment you subordinate to other people, compare yourself to them,
Speaker:minimize you, inject their values, try to live in their values,
Speaker:scatter yourself from your own highest value which is where your true ego is,
Speaker:you're going to wake up your id. And your id is the idiot,
Speaker:the shrunken psyche,
Speaker:iota means tiny and id means the smaller
Speaker:aspect of our nature, you might say, the impulsive part of our nature,
Speaker:and we let our amygdala run our life instead of our executive center.
Speaker:When we live by our highest values the blood glucose and oxygen goes into the
Speaker:executive center and our brain gets inspired vision, strategic planning,
Speaker:executing of plans, self-governance and mastery.
Speaker:But when we try to live in lower values because of comparison of the people,
Speaker:because we judge instead of love, doing what we love we tend not to judge,
Speaker:if we do what we judge, we tend not to love.
Speaker:When we're going through and judging, compare ourselves,
Speaker:trying to change others to be like us, which is futile,
Speaker:or trying to change us to be like others, which is futile,
Speaker:we wake up the id and we end up an idiot.
Speaker:Because it's an idiot to try to think that we can make other people live in our
Speaker:values or we can live in other people's values. We're not going to.
Speaker:Every decision you make is based on what you believe will give you the greatest
Speaker:advantage over disadvantage in the moment to your own values.
Speaker:And if you don't know what your highest values are,
Speaker:that's when you'll brain offload and you'll let other people make decisions for
Speaker:you. And then you'll live with shoulds and ought to's,
Speaker:and supposed to's and got to's and have to's, and musts and need to's,
Speaker:which are imperative languages,
Speaker:which means that there's people on the outside running you instead of you
Speaker:running you. And that's where you're disempowered. That's when you can't,
Speaker:I mean, in the Breakthrough Experience program,
Speaker:which I've taught for 32 years almost,
Speaker:I've asked people to write down what they want to dedicate their life to,
Speaker:and be surprised how many people have difficulty having clarity about what they
Speaker:want. And deep inside in their heart,
Speaker:their true highest value and ego knows.
Speaker:But all of the inculcation,
Speaker:all the injected values of all the things cloud it and they're frightened,
Speaker:and they're fearing rejection from all their authorities around them.
Speaker:And they're holding themselves back and they saying, 'I don't know',
Speaker:but the truth is you do know. Don't let any part of yourself,
Speaker:don't let any other person,
Speaker:individual around you think you don't know,
Speaker:because the truth is you do.
Speaker:I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience and have people that come in
Speaker:there every week and they say, 'I don't know what my mission is',
Speaker:and I ask them a set of questions to make them look at what their life
Speaker:demonstrates, what they really live, not their fantasies,
Speaker:not what they think it should be, and it's very clear what they're committed to,
Speaker:but what happens is they basically have this cloudiness only because of the
Speaker:comparison.
Speaker:We're not here to compare ourselves to others and put people on pedestals or
Speaker:pits. We're here to compare our own daily actions to our own highest value.
Speaker:So we can live authentically by our true essential self, our true ego.
Speaker:So our id is the result of not living congruently with our highest value.
Speaker:There's an old proverb that I stated for many times,
Speaker:if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,
Speaker:that wake up your true, authentic self,
Speaker:your day is going to fill up with low priority distractions because you're going
Speaker:to brain offload and you're going to hesitate, procrastinate,
Speaker:and you're going to end up with depreciating activities. That's the id.
Speaker:And that's why the idiot, which means shrunken psyche, is the result.
Speaker:You shrink yourself instead of shine, and we're not here to shrink.
Speaker:We're here to shine. Now what's the superego?
Speaker:Freud basically described the superego as the moralizing force inside us that
Speaker:kind of whispers to us.
Speaker:And I'm gonna have a little difference than what Freud implied,
Speaker:because I think he missed something in this.
Speaker:But I'll elaborate on what he said and then I'll explain why I'm going to alter
Speaker:that. When you're a child, when you're zero to one years old,
Speaker:you can poo, you can pee, you can bite, you can scratch, you can throw things,
Speaker:you can scream at the top of the lungs, you can not have sleep,
Speaker:you can do just about anything and your mom or dad most likely will love you no
Speaker:matter what. So you get about a year of unconditional love.
Speaker:But the second you stand up, so just remember this, when you're really young,
Speaker:don't stand up. I'm joking.
Speaker:When you stand up and start scampering around the room and falling over and
Speaker:scamper around and start pulling on things and start causing disruption around
Speaker:the house, all of a sudden,
Speaker:because mom or dad have difficulty controlling that, cause you can get around
Speaker:now, not just crawling. Your parents,
Speaker:particularly your mom first will say, 'no, no, no, no, no stop stop.
Speaker:Yes, yes,
Speaker:yes.' And she will start to project her values onto you and
Speaker:give the values according to her cause she's ruler of the house.
Speaker:And all of a sudden she'll give the rules. Now,
Speaker:maybe when dad gets home,
Speaker:there may be a new set of rules that's on top of that or maybe adjacent to that,
Speaker:but whatever it is,
Speaker:there's a set of rules that come home and all of a sudden mothers and fathers
Speaker:become the first moralizing, rule making,
Speaker:hypocritical construction that now goes on the child.
Speaker:So until the child's one,
Speaker:it can get away with just about anything and you don't really make a big deal
Speaker:out of it. But once it gets one,
Speaker:it stands up and starts scampering around and starts tearing things up and
Speaker:exploring things and making messes, you start putting as a parent, right,
Speaker:wrong, stop, go, et cetera. Once the child,
Speaker:because the child's dependent on you gets this jolt that says no and
Speaker:it has a natural impulse with its id to want to go and explore pleasure over
Speaker:pain, and ease over difficulty,
Speaker:the parents now put in a moralizing process when they say no
Speaker:and yes. And so now the child, because it fears loss of the parent,
Speaker:now inculcates that,
Speaker:that's the first subordination to an outer authority that occurs.
Speaker:That's the beginning of the superego.
Speaker:The superego is the internal moralization where the child has an impulse and it
Speaker:also has a true ego and it has an impulse to go for pleasure.
Speaker:It has an ego to embrace both things reasonably and to live authentically.
Speaker:And then it has a moralizing process that's a first stage of socialization
Speaker:that now says, 'thou shalt not do this, and thou shall do this,
Speaker:this is the rules of the house', so in order for the child to live in the house,
Speaker:because it doesn't really have a,
Speaker:probably by one it doesn't have an entrepreneurial position,
Speaker:doesn't have its own company yet, It now incorporates that,
Speaker:and it has an internal conflict between mom and dad, or at least mom initially,
Speaker:and its own impulses and its own highest values.
Speaker:And so sometimes it lives by its highest values,
Speaker:sometimes it wants to be impulsive and now it's got this moralizing parent,
Speaker:that's telling them what it is.
Speaker:And the parents sometimes project onto the child,
Speaker:what they think needs to be done for the child. But about 80% of the time,
Speaker:the things that they're projecting on the child is not necessarily reasonable or
Speaker:rational,
Speaker:it's to protect the parents from having to face their previous wounds of what
Speaker:they are subconsciously storing in their own mind that they feel ashamed about
Speaker:or guilt about or frightened of. So they go and put the rules on there,
Speaker:basically to stop the child from doing the things that remind them of things
Speaker:that they feel guilty about or been hurt by, wounded by.
Speaker:And they project their wounds and their guilts onto the child without even
Speaker:realizing they doing under the quote of moral development and sometimes moral
Speaker:hypocrisies.
Speaker:Because sometimes the parent doesn't even do what it's telling the child to do.
Speaker:And sometimes the parent,
Speaker:a different parent does something different and it confuses the child and of
Speaker:course the child then leverages one parent against the other in order to get its
Speaker:own ego or its own impulses of the id to be expressed.
Speaker:So there's a three-way dynamic going on. The id wants immediate gratification.
Speaker:The ego wants to fulfill something deeply meaningful.
Speaker:And the moralization is the, now the moralizer that says now,
Speaker:thou shalt not do this. So from the first year or so, mommy becomes important.
Speaker:Maybe up to two and three daddy starts coming in.
Speaker:From that point on then comes preachers or rabbis or gurus or
Speaker:whatever,
Speaker:and churches and synagogues and temples and things sometimes get that in there.
Speaker:And by the time they're four or five, they start getting it from schools.
Speaker:And now the teachers and the rabbis and gurus or whatever,
Speaker:they all become now moralizers and they project their values onto it.
Speaker:So the child's now trying to find its own identity,
Speaker:its true nature amongst its own impulses and its
Speaker:moralizing constructions.
Speaker:And any time it feels a conflict between the things that it's supposed to do
Speaker:according to the authorities and what it would love to do,
Speaker:the unfulfillment and the frustration makes it go into its id even more.
Speaker:So now it just wants immediate gratification to
Speaker:conflict. Whenever we feel we're not able to fulfill our highest values,
Speaker:we go into immediate gratification.
Speaker:And so what happens is then it goes onto preachers teachers, school teachers,
Speaker:and through elementary school it's school teachers predominantly and social
Speaker:groups, mom and dad, they still have the rule,
Speaker:until you can stand on your own two feet and be completely independent,
Speaker:they got the rules.
Speaker:So you have to figure out how to leverage one of the parents against the other
Speaker:parents.
Speaker:You have to figure out how to lie in order to not get caught doing what you
Speaker:really want to do or your impulses.
Speaker:And this moralizing process shows up in you,
Speaker:about whoever you given authority to.
Speaker:So if you depend on your mommy or you depend on your daddy,
Speaker:or you look up to your teacher, whoever you put above you and depend on,
Speaker:will inculcate into your psyche and show up as 'I should do this',
Speaker:'I should have done this', 'I'm supposed to do this', 'I have to do this',
Speaker:'I gotta do this', 'I must do this', 'I need to do this', 'I ought to do this',
Speaker:'I have to do this'.
Speaker:All of those imperative languages that you hear in your head are not you,
Speaker:the true ego, the true essential self speaking.
Speaker:It is the injected values of some outer authority,
Speaker:could be mom all the way up to some school teacher et cetera.
Speaker:When you get to 13 to maybe 18 it now becomes social cliques,
Speaker:groups that you associate with and maybe a teacher, you may get a job,
Speaker:it may be a boss. And then you graduate from that and you go on to college,
Speaker:it may be professors or it may be bosses that you work for.
Speaker:And your parents may fade a bit, or you may keep it in there.
Speaker:Bowen says that many times people never get past the parent's stage of moral
Speaker:development.
Speaker:And Kohlberg says that that immediate gratification or the inculcation
Speaker:of the individual authorities of mothers, fathers, preachers, teachers,
Speaker:some people never get beyond that.
Speaker:And they get trapped trying to please their parents all their life,
Speaker:or they get trapped trying to please little societies
Speaker:sacrificing life to try to fit in for fear of rejection in society.
Speaker:And this is the stages of moral development. And what happens,
Speaker:these are all layers of the superego coming in.
Speaker:Eventually you get to a point where you go on and you start your own company and
Speaker:don't work for somebody else. And now your boss doesn't become your authority.
Speaker:Your teacher doesn't become your authority.
Speaker:Your parents may not even become your authority. 'Oh, I'll think about it,
Speaker:mom and dad, I may consider that'.
Speaker:And you be start to become more of an authority,
Speaker:but now the people that run your industry,
Speaker:the people that oversee your companies,
Speaker:the people that are in local governments and mid governements and you know,
Speaker:whole national governments or global rules,
Speaker:they now are who you subordinate to.
Speaker:So you're working your way up a social ladder of people you subordinate to.
Speaker:If you open up a franchise,
Speaker:the teacher now invites you to school and you get to set the rules.
Speaker:You get to tell people what you do. The teacher listens to you.
Speaker:If you get to grow your business nationally,
Speaker:then the mayor wants you to come and visit him.
Speaker:The governor wants to say hi and take a picture with you.
Speaker:And the people that make the rules now want to listen to you and you get to
Speaker:influence the rules.
Speaker:And so all of a sudden you're gradually liberating yourself from subordinating
Speaker:to the super egos of all the people you've injected values from.
Speaker:And eventually you're rising up and starting to get what Kholberg calls
Speaker:transcendence. But eventually you get to a global franchise,
Speaker:let's say you have a company that's global and now the presidents want to meet
Speaker:you and now you're a celebrity in the world. Now you're setting the rules.
Speaker:People want to follow what you're doing instead of you having to follow
Speaker:everybody else's. Eventually you reached a point of transcendence.
Speaker:If you get there, most people don't. But if you did,
Speaker:in the Breakthrough Experience program that's exactly what I teach people to do,
Speaker:how to transcend the outer influences of these moral
Speaker:constructs, which are hypocrisies in many case because the people even,
Speaker:who put those on you, aren't even living them half the time as MacIntyre shows.
Speaker:And so what happens is you're going in and you're basically trying to live by
Speaker:something that nobody lives by,
Speaker:thinking you're going to get some sort of points by being acknowledged,
Speaker:and then you realize that the spectrum of values across the world and you can't
Speaker:please everybody,
Speaker:and you eventually get to a point maybe by your mid forties or whatever you go,
Speaker:'I have an identity crisis. What the hell do I really want in life?
Speaker:I'm halfway through the game now.' And hopefully you emerge. If not,
Speaker:you're stuck and your superego rules you and you have this internal conflict and
Speaker:this masochism between the superego that basically tells you how you should be
Speaker:and you block the expression of your own original thinking and you fit
Speaker:into what Becker would call the collective heroism and become part of the
Speaker:collective herd. Because you're afraid of being rejected.
Speaker:You can't make decisions on your own because of the internal conflict and the
Speaker:cloudiness and you're trapped. And there's no reason you have to be. So
Speaker:what I'm going to summarize is this,
Speaker:the super ego is the internalization of some outer authorities values that
Speaker:you've injected into your life,
Speaker:which creates entropic disorder in your life and conflict inside you
Speaker:between what you truly would love to do,
Speaker:which is your essential self and your true ego, and now
Speaker:this moralizing process. And what's interesting is,
Speaker:and this is where people have gotten stray,
Speaker:whenever you abide by the things that the injected value, the authority
Speaker:of the injected values came from,
Speaker:let's say you look up to somebody and now you now live in that value for the day
Speaker:you feel proud and that proud is the false ego.
Speaker:And then when you don't do it, you feel shamed.
Speaker:And so what happens is you create these bipolar nature of pride and shame,
Speaker:trying to subordinate and sacrifice your true identity,
Speaker:your true ego for the false ego of being a good person and getting acknowledged
Speaker:by people who've got a different set of values than you.
Speaker:And you live maybe feeling proud and putting on a facade,
Speaker:but you have an internal conflict because the true you is not able to come to
Speaker:the surface, you're afraid now.
Speaker:You've been so acknowledged for being a good person in this society that you've
Speaker:lost yourself. You lost your soul if you will. Having the courage,
Speaker:you know, you can walk on coals, you can go and jump bungee jumps,
Speaker:you can do you know, rope climbs,
Speaker:you can do all kinds of gimmicks out thereto metaphorize
Speaker:courage. But the real courage in life,
Speaker:as I teach in the Breakthrough Experience is being able to walk the path of your
Speaker:authentic self. That's what the Breakthrough's about,
Speaker:that's what all my programs are about.
Speaker:Everything I'm doing on these weekly programs is for that.
Speaker:So as long as you're subordinating to outer authority and comparing yourself to
Speaker:others and putting them on pedestals and minimizing yourself and injecting their
Speaker:values,
Speaker:you're going to have an internal conflict between your true highest value and
Speaker:your true ego and the expression of a spontaneous inspired life,
Speaker:where you delegate lower priority things that devalue you and get on with the
Speaker:things that you are inspired by that make the biggest difference that make more
Speaker:meaning out of your life.
Speaker:You're going to have the inculcation of these values from outer authorities and
Speaker:be trapped with an internal conflict.
Speaker:And as a compensation for that to escape the conflict,
Speaker:you go to the id and you go and you try to get immediate gratification.
Speaker:And 99% of the population in economics are consumers of other
Speaker:people's brands to make them temporarily feel better about themselves because of
Speaker:this. They do the same thing.
Speaker:That's why very few people become the gold medalist or the great Nobel prize
Speaker:winners of the great leaders in business or spiritual leaders or whatever,
Speaker:because they haven't got the courage to be themselves.
Speaker:They're worried about fitting in instead of standing out.
Speaker:But the willingness to walk the path of the unborrowed visionary in the pursuit
Speaker:of an authentic expression of your own identity and make the difference.
Speaker:How are you going to make a difference fitting in?
Speaker:You're going to make a different standing out.
Speaker:That is what the Breakthrough Experience is about.
Speaker:That's what all my programs are about.
Speaker:To give you the tools and science of how to do that.
Speaker:And it's not really that difficult once you're aware of what's going on in your
Speaker:psyche. Your words inside you speak, whenever you hear yourself saying,
Speaker:'I should', 'I ought to', 'I supposed to', 'I got to', 'I have to', 'I must',
Speaker:that is not you. You don't should yourself.
Speaker:You don't make mistake in your own values.
Speaker:You only think you made a mistake when you did an action that was inspiring to
Speaker:you that went against the values of some authority and then you beat yourself up
Speaker:with shame because now you're giving power to their decisions instead of your
Speaker:own. And you offloaded decision-making. And you only project 'should',
Speaker:'ought to' onto other people when you're projecting an expectation on them to
Speaker:live in your values, which they can't. So ultimately there's no mistakes.
Speaker:There's only perceived mistakes when you're trying to live in other people's
Speaker:values you'll think you're making mistakes.
Speaker:When you're trying to get others to live in your values,
Speaker:you'll think they make mistakes.
Speaker:But ultimately everybody made a decision based on what they felt was most
Speaker:important at that time to their values.
Speaker:So the superego is in a sense the dictator
Speaker:inside your head, coming from whoever you've given power to as an authority.
Speaker:In the Breakthrough Experience what I do is I have a science called the
Speaker:Demartini Method and we go in there and level the playing field and own the
Speaker:traits of people that we've got above us,
Speaker:so we realize that there's nothing missing in us.
Speaker:We don't have to minimize ourselves and see that they have something we don't.
Speaker:We find out where we have what they have in our own form.
Speaker:This is what's the challenge. As Einstein said,
Speaker:if you're a cat expecting to swim like a fish,
Speaker:you're going to beat yourself up because you don't have the equipment to do the
Speaker:fish swimming. And if you're a fish expecting to climb a tree,
Speaker:you're going to beat yourself up. And this is what people do.
Speaker:They compare themselves to others, expect to live in those people's values,
Speaker:beat themselves up, they think they have limited beliefs,
Speaker:they think they're sabotaging, they think they're not disciplined,
Speaker:they think they keep sabotaging or something of this nature,
Speaker:they don't have what it takes, they can't stay focused.
Speaker:It's because they're trying to be somebody they're not.
Speaker:You don't need to be motivated to be you. You don't need to be reminded.
Speaker:The true you is sitting inside surfacing,
Speaker:intuitively wanting to express itself and express your genius.
Speaker:But the moment we compare ourselves to others,
Speaker:instead of compare our daily actions to our own highest values, we cloud it,
Speaker:we shroud it, and we give power away. And any area of our life we don't empower,
Speaker:somebody's going to overpower.
Speaker:And the reason they overpower us is to frustrate us enough,
Speaker:to give ourselves permission to be authentic.
Speaker:So the id is trying to live by lower values as a result of the
Speaker:escape of the suppression that we give ourselves when we try to live in other
Speaker:people's values.
Speaker:The true ego is living authentically according to what iss really our value,
Speaker:highest value, which we spontaneously want to express.
Speaker:So if you go on my website and go to the value determination process,
Speaker:and look at the top value questions to help you determine what's really
Speaker:important to you and start structuring your life on that,
Speaker:come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Let me show you exactly how to do that so you can learn to delegate lower
Speaker:priority things and get on doing something deeply meaningful to you,
Speaker:that's inspiring, that's unique, that makes the difference.
Speaker:And there's no reason why you have to live in this mediocrity.
Speaker:You can do something extraordinary, whatever that may be,
Speaker:whether it raising a family or going doing something social causes or a business
Speaker:or wealth or health or spiritual pursuits,
Speaker:whatever it is that's truly highest on your value you deserve to live.
Speaker:And there's no reason why you can't. So your ego is your highest value.
Speaker:Your id is trying to live by lower values because of the inculcation of outer
Speaker:authorities and the superego is those injections from outer authorities that you
Speaker:gave power to. So I just wanted to go over those three things,
Speaker:because I think that they are good reminders of how to live it.
Speaker:And if for some reason you want to know what your values are,
Speaker:please go to my website, dr.demartini.com and take advantage of that.
Speaker:Please take advantage of these webinars that we do every week that gives you
Speaker:just a little stimulus every week to think and expand and to utilize.
Speaker:Join me at the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I want to be able to take what I know and share it with you.
Speaker:Cause I know it works for thousands of people. I know it will work for you.
Speaker:It's just a matter of applying it. And you sometimes if you get it,
Speaker:the doorbell goes on and all of a sudden a light goes on and you see it.
Speaker:Now you can take action, teach you how to prioritize and delegate,
Speaker:and also take advantage of our, our Dr. Demartini show,
Speaker:the podcast that we do.
Speaker:We have a program that's called Clarify Your Goals to Maximize Your Achievement.
Speaker:And what we're going to do is show you how to maximize goals that are congruent
Speaker:with what you value most.
Speaker:So you can wake up your true ego and not let the super egos distract you and get
Speaker:caught, puffing yourself up. Whenever we're proud and cocky and self-righteous,
Speaker:we tend to project our values onto others and its utility.
Speaker:And then any time we beat ourselves up and minimize ourselves,
Speaker:cause we're not living in other people's values we think,
Speaker:we're going to end up going for impulses and instincts and disempower ourself.
Speaker:I want to show you how to set real goals in real time that give real results
Speaker:that allow you to live authentically in an inspired way.
Speaker:There's absolutely nothing stopping you from doing that,
Speaker:except a little education. That education could go a long way.
Speaker:Within a tiny seed, lies a mighty oak. And these ideas you know,
Speaker:it's time for those ideas in your mind. So please take advantage of that.
Speaker:Take advantage of our weekly programs we're doing.
Speaker:This one coming up on goals and definitely come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:That's where I can actually take you through it and make you go through the
Speaker:process and learn how to master your life so things on the outside don't run the
Speaker:vision and the mission on the inside. So until next week, this is Dr. Demartini.
Speaker:Thank you for joining me. Thank you for taking some notes, applying it.
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Speaker:what they want to get in life, we get what we want to get in life,
Speaker:and there's no reason why not to create a catalytic ripple effect by helping
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