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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Episode 59: Three Ways to Kill Your Ego

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shotglass. Ten minutes, no filler. Music in this episode is by Keshco, used under a creative commons license. The Angry Therapist Podcast is Produced and Audio Engineered by Amanda Meyncke.  Want a free relationship toolkit to improve your relationships and yourself? Sign up here theangrytherapist.com/podcast Want to become a life coach? Check it out here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

0:07.2

self betterment into a shot class because let's face it who's got that much time

0:11.4

these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose.

0:16.2

If you're looking for more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place.

0:21.3

Also I want to mention some big news. Journey is now affiliated with

0:25.0

Wonder Lust. We're the only life coaching company to partner with them and myself

0:29.3

Noel and many of our catalyst Life Coaches will beanda Lestratton, which is in Vermont, from June 21st through the 24th.

0:37.6

If you want to join us, you can get 10% off tickets using the code JRNI 2018. Go to wanderlust.com and look for Stratton. I hope to see you there.

0:50.0

Three shots for killing your ego. Number one, smash the scoreboard.

0:57.0

Focus less on outcomes and instead focus on the process. So when we put all our chips on what we need to achieve, right?

1:06.5

Like what we need to get done or like the goal

1:10.7

that we need to accomplish our ego, it's on the line because most of us

1:17.2

and by most I mean all of us tie our worth parentheses ego to our ability right so if we don't achieve something if we don't

1:27.2

land a deal get whatever get the corner office to raise the girl win the race or whatever, we believe that we are worth less,

1:38.0

we believe that we're less than.

1:39.3

So our ego protects itself by doing everything it can to make the touchdown, to score, to win.

1:47.1

And at times, compromising our true, what it does is it compromises our truth our value and our character so by not

1:56.6

focusing on the scoreboard we stop feeding our ego now I'm not saying to not be

2:01.6

ambitious I'm not saying to not be ambitious, I'm not saying to like just stay home and

2:05.7

meditate. I'm saying yeah of course bust your balls do your thing but just holding

2:12.4

on to the scoreboard so tightly with two hands we got to stop

2:15.8

doing that we got to disengage in the pissing contest right a lot of you guys if you're

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