Fulfilment also comes through contributing to other people and engaging, interacting, reflecting and learning. Nor are you likely to make a difference or feel fulfilled. Even if you meditate and manage to go into a transcendent state that you perceive to be beyond any identification of ego, you will not be able to spend your whole life in that state. It therefore stands to reason that if you trying to get rid of your true ego, you are essentially trying to get rid of your authentic self, or what is sometimes called your soul, which is foolish. Many people equate puffing themselves up and trying to make out that they are better or greater than everyone else as ego. This is the True Ego and, in my view, there is nothing unwise about that. As a result, you are likely to be the most disciplined, reliable, and focused in these highest priority areas, and you will tend to achieve more and emerge as an authentic individual and leader. When you are not subordinating or conforming to other people – you are being unique to you and pursuing what is most meaningful and inspiring to you.
In fact, because your values are unique and because you have a hierarchy values that is fingerprint specific, when you are living in alignment and congruent with what those highest values are, you are likely to make the biggest difference. And I don’t think there’s anyone who can honestly say they don’t want to live that way. As a result, when I’m teaching, researching and sharing what I discover, I am being true to myself – my true self, my true I, my true ego. In my case, I have a high value on teaching and learning. So, when you live in alignment and are congruent with what you value most, when you are willing to embrace both pain and pleasure, when it is so important to you that it doesn’t matter what the obstacles are because you will turn them into opportunities, when you are able to be more objective and embrace both sides of life and see both sides, this is what Freud called the True Ego. Some Eastern mystics have advised getting rid of your ego in order to be truly spiritual, which I find to be somewhat misleading and confusing as how do you get rid of their true self? In essence, your ego is your essential self and not the existential volatile personas and masks that you wear during the day. If you superimpose Freud’s language on top of this hierarchy of values, the expression and fulfilment of your highest value is what he would call the True Ego – ego meaning “I”, “self” or “true self”. This is where you tend to excel, expand and achieve. Whatever is highest on your list of values, you are spontaneously inspired from within to pursue and fulfil. You will often require extrinsic motivation to get you to do it – a punishment if you don’t do it and a reward if you do. Whatever is lower on your list of values, you will tend to procrastinate, hesitate and frustrate in the pursuit of them. You live by a set of priorities or a set of values, a list of things that are most important to least important in your life.
Your hierarchy of values at any one moment is fingerprint specific to you
Let’s take a step back and begin by looking at your value structure or hierarchy of values and how it relates to your True Ego, the Superego and the Id. If you prefer to watch the video, click below. Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as reality testing, governing, planning, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and knowing. The ego was considered the component of the individual that is responsible for dealing with reality. But in Freud’s original view, your ego is more expressive of your true or authentic self.
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Ego is also often used in a negative way to describe someone who is perceived to be arrogant and full of themselves. I have seen many pieces of literature, particularly Eastern mysticism, that has said that we need to get rid of our ego and that having an ego is ‘bad’. Over the decades, these terms have given rise to some confusion and to numerous interpretations of their meaning. Today’s topic is something that I think you will find more than fascinating.įreud used the terms: Ego, Id and Superego, which are often referred to as the tripartite aspect of the psyche. This topical article is a look at these 3 terms and how they relate to your hierarchy of values and a chance to see if it’s wise for you to maybe embrace your true ego, or “I” instead of living with the idea you’re supposed to be suppressing or getting rid of it. Freud’s definition of the Ego, the Id and the Superego has given rise to some confusion over the years.
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