"If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself; they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others.
"If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself; they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others.
Now a narrative is a story, not a logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize it or not. Just as surely as you breathe, you go on ceaselessly dreaming your story. And in these stories you wear two faces. You are simultaneously subject and object. You are a whole and you are a part. You are real and you are shadow. "Storyteller" and at the same time "character". It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.
Yet without a proper ego nobody can create a personal narrative, any more than you can drive a car without an engine, or cast a shadow without a real physical object. But once you've consigned your ego to someone else, where on earth do you go from there?
At this point you receive a new narrative from the person to whom you have entrusted your ego. You've handed over the real thing, so what comes back is a shadow. And once your ego has merged with another ego, your narrative will necessarily take on the narrative created by that ego.
Just what kind of narrative?
It needn't be anything particularly fancy, nothing complicated or refined. You don't need to have literary ambitions. In fact, the sketchier and simpler the better. Junk, a leftover rehash will do. Anyway, most people are tired of complex, multilayered scenarios-they are a potential letdown. It's precisely because people can't find any fixed point within their own multilayered schemes that they're tossing aside their own self-identity."
These days on the craziness of the world, I created a simple strategy. I create a short list of things I want to get done.
At the end of the day instead of beating myself up for nit getting more done. I have started congratulating myself for completing that small doable list. I let myself succeed.
I always tell my employees to accomplish 3 small things per day; 3 larger initiatives per month; and three projects in a quarter.
And to not get bogged down with a list of 184 things....because the list will always be there. It's really hard for younger employees to get that. They think they have to check off everything so that it goes away the next day....which it never does in reality.
Plus if you structure your days like this many items on a list take care if themselves by virtue of just trying to accomplish the bigger to-dos vs. managing by crisis.
I always told my employees "I don't pay you to sit on your ass". Didn't work out so well because they were software guys so, maybe I WAS paying them to sit on their asses.
Oh yes. Well thought out plan, Linda. I am the same.
back in the day I was a super multitasker - BAM I got a zillion things done.
I have changed of course, now, I DO make that list every day and then do the things
that more importantly make me "feel" I accomplished the necessaries over desires.
My oldest daughter just turned 40!! I suggested she just work on keeping the kids on their "rafts" and healthy, and do one necessary thing and one thing that you want to do.
Then you do not feel like a slave. Those days with kids in early school years were crazy.
Now I am older, I do more wants than needs haha haha
The "pull" advice at the end of this post is astute. As Ben Hunt puts it, when ingesting the media, we should always ask: "Why am I reading this, and why am I reading this NOW?" Everything "pushed" at us is driven by an agenda and a narrative. We need to understand both before consuming.
"At this point you receive a new narrative from the person to whom you have entrusted your ego. You've handed over the real thing, so what comes back is a shadow. And once your ego has merged with another ego, your narrative will necessarily take on the narrative created by that ego."
This is the precise function of the corporate media. When interacting with my friends still inside the media bubble/matrix, it is clear to me that the effect of propaganda is to transfer the 'existential' fear that the regime (correctly!) feels about Trump on to them, to make them feel as if Trump is a direct and personal threat to themselves -- it becomes their identity.
Defending the narrative then becomes an act of self-defense; they feel personally threatened by those opposing viewpoints and this explains their complete inability to engage with, understand, or even view them.
I missed the initial quotation marks and thought "Wow, that's extremely profound and insightful! Ryan is quite the philosopher." Then I get to the end.
"If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself; they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others.
Now a narrative is a story, not a logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize it or not. Just as surely as you breathe, you go on ceaselessly dreaming your story. And in these stories you wear two faces. You are simultaneously subject and object. You are a whole and you are a part. You are real and you are shadow. "Storyteller" and at the same time "character". It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.
Yet without a proper ego nobody can create a personal narrative, any more than you can drive a car without an engine, or cast a shadow without a real physical object. But once you've consigned your ego to someone else, where on earth do you go from there?
At this point you receive a new narrative from the person to whom you have entrusted your ego. You've handed over the real thing, so what comes back is a shadow. And once your ego has merged with another ego, your narrative will necessarily take on the narrative created by that ego.
Just what kind of narrative?
It needn't be anything particularly fancy, nothing complicated or refined. You don't need to have literary ambitions. In fact, the sketchier and simpler the better. Junk, a leftover rehash will do. Anyway, most people are tired of complex, multilayered scenarios-they are a potential letdown. It's precisely because people can't find any fixed point within their own multilayered schemes that they're tossing aside their own self-identity."
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- Haruki Murakami
A little off topic but I think it applies.
These days on the craziness of the world, I created a simple strategy. I create a short list of things I want to get done.
At the end of the day instead of beating myself up for nit getting more done. I have started congratulating myself for completing that small doable list. I let myself succeed.
Yes. I have to do the same thing.
I always tell my employees to accomplish 3 small things per day; 3 larger initiatives per month; and three projects in a quarter.
And to not get bogged down with a list of 184 things....because the list will always be there. It's really hard for younger employees to get that. They think they have to check off everything so that it goes away the next day....which it never does in reality.
Plus if you structure your days like this many items on a list take care if themselves by virtue of just trying to accomplish the bigger to-dos vs. managing by crisis.
I always told my employees "I don't pay you to sit on your ass". Didn't work out so well because they were software guys so, maybe I WAS paying them to sit on their asses.
The main problem is that males no longer hunt.
This is so true. Not sure if you're joking or not.
But there's nothing like having to kill your meal to eat. Same with working with your hands to make shit happen.
Both sharpen the senses.
excellent Ryan, great advice and guidance from the "boss"
Lolol. I'm the best idiot boss this side of the Mississippi
😂 I doubt that
Oh yes. Well thought out plan, Linda. I am the same.
back in the day I was a super multitasker - BAM I got a zillion things done.
I have changed of course, now, I DO make that list every day and then do the things
that more importantly make me "feel" I accomplished the necessaries over desires.
My oldest daughter just turned 40!! I suggested she just work on keeping the kids on their "rafts" and healthy, and do one necessary thing and one thing that you want to do.
Then you do not feel like a slave. Those days with kids in early school years were crazy.
Now I am older, I do more wants than needs haha haha
My problem is that I lose the list after I write it. 🤪
Lol. Sometimes i spend more time consolidating list than clearing them.
lists.
I "inherited" this condition from my father.
Lists, notebooks. It is not always productive.
We are cleaning up and downsizing (not strenuously) and I found a pile of papers with about 4 old lists. LOL funny. One was three years old hahahaha
I like it.
I've tried ending the day with a What Went Right? reflection but perhaps not frequently enough.
Sound like it should be more central.
If nothing else it saves time over the What Went Wrong? list! ; )
The "pull" advice at the end of this post is astute. As Ben Hunt puts it, when ingesting the media, we should always ask: "Why am I reading this, and why am I reading this NOW?" Everything "pushed" at us is driven by an agenda and a narrative. We need to understand both before consuming.
I turned off push notifications on all my apps years ago. I would never turn them back on.
Otherwise you're the "product"...in both senses of the word
"One should endeavor to keep one's ego small, and entirely to oneself." ---Me
Gotta go, have a good one.
"At this point you receive a new narrative from the person to whom you have entrusted your ego. You've handed over the real thing, so what comes back is a shadow. And once your ego has merged with another ego, your narrative will necessarily take on the narrative created by that ego."
This is the precise function of the corporate media. When interacting with my friends still inside the media bubble/matrix, it is clear to me that the effect of propaganda is to transfer the 'existential' fear that the regime (correctly!) feels about Trump on to them, to make them feel as if Trump is a direct and personal threat to themselves -- it becomes their identity.
Defending the narrative then becomes an act of self-defense; they feel personally threatened by those opposing viewpoints and this explains their complete inability to engage with, understand, or even view them.
The moral is never entrust your ego to anyone or anything, then your ego cannot be corrupted or influenced. Always question authority and opinions.
Excellent quote. Thank you.
I missed the initial quotation marks and thought "Wow, that's extremely profound and insightful! Ryan is quite the philosopher." Then I get to the end.
Still apropos, right?
Of course. Just disappointed. I was ready to get you a book deal.
I was pretty pumped too and then saw the author's name and went, "Oh."
But, yes. Apropos.
Shiiit...you know I'm not that smart!...:)
🤣
See, I'm not the only one this happened to.
Homerun, Ryan.