Sponsored By: Creating Courage and Fearlessness🎙️Episode Highlight: Fear and The Ego! 🎧

Ego driven fear - is it even a thing? Animals experience fear and little kids experience fear and they don’t have Egos (most likely) so how can fear be related to ‘the Ego’ well…

🔍 Episode Contents:

Topic: Introduction to Agents of Everything

- Purpose of the podcast: Increasing personal agency and adaptiveness in a complex world

- Call to action: Rate and share the podcast, sign up for Substack engagement

Topic: Fear and Ego Relationship

- Discussion of fear and ego

- Fear and adaptation in humans and other living beings

- Influence of hypnotherapist Stephen Gilligan's quote on fear and ego

Topic: Ego and Its Functionality

- Explanation of the ego as a set of narrative structures

- Physiological responses to fear and the ego

- Comparison of animal fear and human fear

- Personal experiences related to childhood fears

Topic: Ego's Impact on Fear

- Exploration of ego's role in creating fear out of narratives such as rejection, inadequacy, or judgment

- Rationalization of fears and ego's influence

Topic: Transcending Fear through Narrative Transformation

- Using cognitive faculties to depotentiate fears created by the ego

- Encouraging a mature and adaptive relationship with fear

- Using cognitive processes for narrative transformation and ego management

- Importance of being able to meet fears from a mature and adaptive perspective

Topic: Creating Courage and Fearlessness

- Details of the 5-week interactive program focused on transcending ego-based fears

- Emphasis on raising self-awareness, using cognitive faculties, and courage-building

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