Intellectual Discipline: How to Train Your Mind & Let Go of Your Ego
Description
Stop getting in your own way by spotting the lies your mind wants you to believe.
Learn about the psychology behind the hidden biases that blind us from the truth. This episode explains the main reasons behind the biggest mistakes you make in life and how to overcome them.
Takes homes:
- The link between IQ and the ability to lie to ourselves
- Warning signs that you aren't being truthful
- 3 biggest mistakes Sam made last decade
- 3 ways to catch your own ego
This is a deceptively easy listening episode with big take-homes. Host Sam Webster Harris tells us about the 3 biggest mistakes he made in his life and how clearly ego was behind them. These stories show how blinded we can be by our beliefs that we fail to see the obvious answers right in front of us.
We round up the episode with some lessons to take forward to be more aware in our own lives of where we trip ourselves up.
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Chapters:
00:00 Unconscious bias and why we lie to ourselves
02:54 IQ and ego
05:28 How well do you understand information
07:58 Being aware of your flaws
10:44 Mistake 1 - Unscientific scientist
14:01 Mistake 2 - Unbalanced Balancer
18:14 Mistake 3 - Unentrepreneurial Entrepreneur
22:47 Recap
23:05 Tips on how to become an ego detective
24:27 Tip 1 - Write Down 3 Big Errors You Made
25:24 Tip 2 - Nurturing Strategies
26:46 Tip 3 - Find your low ego crowd
27:17 Outro
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