Intellectual Discipline: How to Train Your Mind & Let Go of Your Ego

Stop getting in your own way by spotting the lies your mind wants you to believe.

Learn about the psychology behind the hidden biases that blind us from the truth. This episode explains the main reasons behind the biggest mistakes you make in life and how to overcome them.

Takes homes:

• The link between IQ and the ability to lie to ourselves
• Warning signs that you aren't being truthful
• 3 biggest mistakes Sam made last decade
• 3 ways to catch your own ego

This is a deceptively easy listening episode with big take-homes. Host Sam Webster Harris tells us about the 3 biggest mistakes he made in his life and how clearly ego was behind them. These stories show how blinded we can be by our beliefs that we fail to see the obvious answers right in front of us.

We round up the episode with some lessons to take forward to be more aware in our own lives of where we trip ourselves up.

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Chapters:

00:00 Unconscious bias and why we lie to ourselves

02:54 IQ and ego

05:28 How well do you understand information

07:58 Being aware of your flaws

10:44 Mistake 1 - Unscientific scientist

14:01 Mistake 2 - Unbalanced Balancer

18:14 Mistake 3 - Unentrepreneurial Entrepreneur

22:47 Recap

23:05 Tips on how to become an ego detective

24:27 Tip 1 - Write Down 3 Big Errors You Made

25:24 Tip 2 - Nurturing Strategies

26:46 Tip 3 - Find your low ego crowd

27:17 Outro

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