Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement

Intellectual Discipline: How to Train Your Mind & Let Go of Your Ego

Nov 12, 2024

33:11

Snipd AI

Discover how self-deception can sabotage your growth. Explore the connection between intelligence and our tendency to lie to ourselves. Hear personal stories revealing the biggest mistakes driven by ego. Uncover warning signs that you aren't speaking the truth and learn methods to catch your own ego in action. This engaging discussion provides transformative takeaways to enhance self-awareness and improve decision-making in your life.

AI Summary

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

High intelligence can lead to self-deception, causing individuals to ignore evidence that contradicts their beliefs and impairing personal growth.

Ego significantly obstructs self-awareness and growth by making it difficult for individuals to acknowledge mistakes and accept being wrong.

Deep dives

The Burden of Intelligence

Intelligence, while often viewed as a gift, can sometimes act as a burden due to the ego's influence on our perceptions and decisions. High intelligence may lead to a tendency to dismiss evidence that contradicts our preconceived notions, making it easy to fall into patterns of self-deception. This is exemplified by how individuals can overlook warning signs in their environment when overly confident in their own reasoning abilities. Such cognitive biases not only impede personal growth but also create a false sense of correctness that restricts the pursuit of genuine truth.

Intro

11min

Reflections on Bias and Self-Awareness

7min

Mistakes and Lessons: The Journey of Self-Reflection and Growth

5min

Overcoming Ego in the Pursuit of Success

9min

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.

Upgrade to Premium:

🏖️ Ad-free listening

🤘 Support the show

🔓 Exclusive AMAs and bonus content

💬 Community Discord

GrowthMindset.Supercast.com

Sponsors

🥙 Hello Fresh - America's #1 meal kit provider

10 free meals across 7 boxes
HelloFresh.com/FreeGrowthMindset

Get in Touch

👋 Free Call - Schedule Link

📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com

Growth Mindset Psychology:

Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)

🛜 Website - GrowthMindsetPodcast.com

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export