Jeremy Griffith’s FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition attempts something much larger than an ordinary theory of personality or psychological disorder. Griffith proposes a biological explanation for what he regards as the central contradiction of human existence.
Projection, is a term coined by Sigmund Freud, and used by Carl Jung, but often in modern day use, it has a different nuance applied.
When people belittle others, it is often a defence strategy, designed to keep them “less than”, the individual doing the mocking, and this allows them to stop listening to that individual, to pretend to themselves that they are irrelevant.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
A growth-mindset treats relationship conflict as something to “learn from” and “work on together”. This tends to keep things “real”.
Human feelings are the inner experiences that tell a person how life is going for them right now, like a built‑in signal system.
The ego is the part of your mind that says “I.” It holds your picture of who you are, how you should act, and how others see you. It is not your whole self, but it has a big influence on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
Honesty and Truth Honesty and truth sit at the centre of both authenticity and “showing off” – boasting, exaggerating, attention-seeking, etc. They are what your real self stands on, when it is brave enough to stop performing and start simply…
In life, a constant stream of microaggressions – of disagreements, and being corrected, told to change our thinking or behaviour – tend to cause microtraumas, which, ultimately are micro-rejections of the individuals true self.
Welcome to Training the Ego. This is your simple guide to understanding and becoming the person you want to be – your true self. I’ve tried to make it simple, so that anyone can read and understand it, yet the concepts here are incredibly powerful. And if used correctly, can lead an individual to true self-transcendence, where they have complete mastery of self in all its guises.