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#103 Loch Kelly: Effortless Mindfulness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What Is Ego? And What Does It Mean?

Ego is a function of the human psyche, a consciousness. It's one of the organizing principles of your body. Once you kind of dialogue with it and let it know that literally, the ego or these ego managers that are kind of this round table, the committee, usually, rather than one, will go like, oh, good. We can take a vacation. Oh, we can be part of the team. No, you don't. You never did. The little ego doesn't grow up to be, the awakened sense of self either. And then there's this kind of dimension of being that becomes primary, that can be with your whole personality in a way that's so

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