Does Ego Work Screw You Over? - 0269
Personality Hacker Podcast
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4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about some of the downsides and challenges with ego work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Antonia Dodge. I was recently listening to a podcast. It was Dax Shepherds podcast called Armed Chair Expert and he |
| 0:19.4 | Dax Sheppard is a Hollywood type he's an, and he interviews a lot of people in Hollywood. |
| 0:24.8 | And I don't usually listen to those, but he's got a series called Experts on Expert, |
| 0:30.8 | which is when he brings in experts in the field and intellectuals and interviews them. |
| 0:36.2 | And he was recently interviewing Brett Weinstein, |
| 0:41.2 | who I personally love listening to in podcast form or you know his interviews I think he's a |
| 0:47.6 | really smart dude and he's an evolutionary biologist and he studies evolutionary you know like like biological mating amongst |
| 0:55.4 | different animals and he's just a really interesting guy and he recently |
| 0:58.8 | said something in that podcast that as a person who is forever trying to grab whatever principles I can and sort of |
| 1:07.3 | shoehorn them into personal development and ego transcendence work I thought |
| 1:12.1 | was sort of fascinating not only for the concept itself, |
| 1:16.3 | but also for where I'm at in my time period of growth and life right now. He mentioned that one of the challenges that we have |
| 1:25.8 | is that aggressive people have a distinctive evolutionary advantage over non-aggressive people. |
| 1:34.7 | And yet what we're all trying to do as a society is get to a place where we're not constantly |
| 1:38.8 | battling everything out. |
| 1:39.9 | Now we're not that successful either, know sort of like like like either physically |
| 1:44.7 | already ideologically we still are surrounded by people who are very easy to go to |
| 1:50.1 | war if they feel offended or if they feel like they are being threatened in anyway. |
| 1:56.4 | And I would say in the culture that we live in, you can definitely see this if not physically |
| 2:01.7 | also, but specifically ideologically people are very |
| 2:05.6 | aggressive ideologically in our current society I think that that's I don't think |
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