When Weakness Turns Your Ego Up | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
So it goes for ego. To the untrained eye, it can be mistaken for confidence. The person’s self-centeredness, their certainty, their entitlement—this seems like the way that only the most important and gifted person in the world could get away with acting. In reality, the person doesn’t feel that way inside at all. On the contrary, they feel very small. Nero, for instance, demanded that enormous audiences celebrate his greatness. This was also the same emperor who banished a poet from Rome for being too talented, and thus a threat.
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| 0:00.0 | Our emotions play a powerful role in everything we think and say and do and in this series of Darren Brown's boot camp for emotion |
| 0:07.5 | Darren is joined by top behavioral scientists and experts to reveal how we can control these powerful and mysterious forces |
| 0:14.6 | which often hijack our rational thinking and lead us astray. By increasing our |
| 0:18.8 | emotional intelligence we can improve our lives in every conceivable way. This is the latest release in the Darren Brown |
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| 0:29.3 | boot camp for life. All three series are available to listen to on audible, subscription required, see |
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| 0:38.6 | How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I be the bills? How do I pay the bills? |
| 0:45.0 | I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. |
| 0:49.0 | The questions, the fears, the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too. That's why I |
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| 1:06.2 | McMillan online community. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:14.6 | On Friday we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 1:18.2 | but also reading a passage from The Daily Stoic, |
| 1:21.5 | my book, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the art of living, |
| 1:26.4 | which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and literary agent Stephen Hanselman. |
| 1:33.0 | So today we'll give you a quick meditation |
| 1:35.0 | from the Stoics with some analysis from me |
| 1:38.0 | and then we'll send you out into the world |
| 1:40.0 | to turn these words in to works. When weakness turns your ego up, there are some things that look like strength but aren't. |
| 1:58.4 | An aggressive mean person can seem strong, but oftentimes they aren't. |
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