Ego, Disrupted. How Buddhist Wisdom Meets Western Therapy with Dr. Mark Epstein
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
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What Is the Relationship That These Top Performers Have With Their Ego?
The idea of going to pieces without falling apart comes out of a british psychoanalyst who studied mothers and young children. He found that in the kids, in the in the young children and in the parents who totally emphasized just performance, just ego, those those kids developed what he called a kind of false self,. You know, a caretaker self. There they were, the eago was too strong, and the kids went too early to their thinking minds to try to manage everything for themselves. In order to play in the greatest sense, or to create, to make art, we have to be able to have fluidity with the ego. The ego's important, but it
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