Download or read book The Other Side of Ego written by Jonathan Gravenor and published by Jonathan Gravenor. This book was released on 2017 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side of Ego explores a mans attempt to confront his mortality and the kind of lies we tell ourselves about what is really precious in life. Jonathan writes about his intimate journey with a deadly disease. But he also tells a bigger story about how the disease launched him on a pilgrimage to become a better man.
Download or read book The Alter Ego Effect written by Todd Herman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. What if the games we played as children were the greatest gift to helping us achieve more today? Before stage fright, impostor syndrome, emotional baggage, and the other dubious gifts of adulthood, everyone pretended to be a superhero, a favorite athlete, an inspiring entertainer, a nurse, a firefighter, a lion, or whatever else captured our imaginations. And yet, that natural creativity is slowly squeezed out of us because we think it’s childish or it’s “time to grow up.” Now Todd Herman—backed by scientific research and countless stories from the real world—will show us how to tap into the human imagination to unleash new versions of ourselves, ready-made to kick ass. Herman has been coaching champions in every field for over twenty years, and he’s helped them bring out their Heroic Self to transcend the forces pulling them into the Ordinary World. Anyone attempting ambitious things faces adversity, resistance, and challenges, but Herman confronts these obstacles with a question: Who or what needs to show up to make success inevitable? In The Alter Ego Effect, Herman presents countless stories from salespeople, executives, entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, creatives, and historical figures to illustrate how to activate the Heroic Self already nested inside each of us. And he reveals that we may not be using those traits in the moments when we need them the most. From the creative entrepreneur who resisted their craft, to the accomplished military officer who wanted to be a warmer dad at home, Todd Herman’s clients have discovered there is no end to the parts of their lives they could improve by using Alter Egos.
Download or read book Detox Your Ego written by Steven Sylvester and published by Headline. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What stops you performing at your best? Your ego. Your ego is your natural defence system, triggered when strong emotions such as anxiety and fear sweep through you. When you're doing something important - preparing for an exam, taking a driving test, speaking in public, making a business presentation, or striving to improve your performance in sport - your ego is sure to interfere. By enabling you to understand your underlying motivations and anxieties, DETOX YOUR EGO helps you improve the way you go about achieving those goals. DETOX YOUR EGO takes you on a journey of self-discovery, a process that enables youto master your own ego in order to increase your health, happiness and purpose. Psychologist Steven Sylvester's inspiring and ground-breaking approach focuses on a brand new approach to winning. In DETOX YOUR EGO, Sylvester shares for the very first time the seven easy steps to be freer, happier and more successful in your life. DETOX YOUR EGO liberates you to be the best that you can be.
Download or read book Egg and Ego written by J.M.W. Slack and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted look at the nature of academic science, intended for anyone interested in biology but particularly for biology students who want to find out what the future holds in store. The "Egg" of the title refers to the science of developmental biology, which is the speciality of the author, and which provides the material for many of the anecdotes. The "Ego" relates to the vanity of the scientists themselves. Academic scientists have to struggle to maintain their research funding. To do this they must persuade other scientists that they are very good, and that means working at a good institution, publishing papers in the most fashionable journals and giving lectures at the most prestigious meetings. Success often goes to those with the largest egos and it is their style of operation that is described in this book. The author is a well-known scientist who has worked at both universities and research institutes. He has published over 100 scientific papers and an influential book about embryonic development: "From Egg to Embryo".
Download or read book The Power of Ego written by Rémi Meyer and published by Rémi Meyer. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rémi Meyer’s childhood was fraught with mental and emotional abuse before escaping from his parents at the age of 17 and beginning his process of recovery and transformation. 20 years later it led to the writing of his opus, The Power of Ego to share what he has learned with millions of people and to bridge information to understand the psyche, which leads to fulfillment, forgiveness, freedom, happiness, and self-love. Numerous cognitive neuroscience studies have found that 95% of our cognitive activities (emotions, decisions, behavior, and actions) are beyond our conscious mind. Therefore, experiences of life dramas (pain and suffering) are always acted upon unconsciously and directed by the ego. They are triggered by our repressed emotions, traumas, memories, life instincts, feelings, and desires; most likely formed in our childhood. However, they remain hidden in the unconscious mind, which then constitute a reservoir of explosive charges that the ego uses to sprout and manifest themselves in our daily lives. I wish I could tell that you will be able to live a life without challenges, but I cannot promise that as being alive is to encounter life challenges. But what I can promise is being increasingly self-aware can greatly enrich our life experiences. Therefore, to accomplish the grand task of self-awareness and revealing your own psyche (personality, character, ego, unconscious, etc.) requires dedication. It is similar to exercising at the gym, the more you do it, the stronger and bigger your muscles develop. The Power of Ego details, like never before, the different components of the most complex cosmic wonder: the psyche and its ego. The Power of Ego explores the diverse facets of the psyche and their impact on our lives, through the lenses of psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, biology, and metaphysics. This book details a piercing perspective about the essence of this reality and the purpose of our ego in a way that will inhabit your soul long after you have put down this book. And as Carl Jung said, “The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
Download or read book Ego is the Enemy written by Ryan Holiday and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key, and Obstacle is the Way - over 1 million copies sold 'Re-read it each year. It's that important' Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want 'Ryan Holiday is one of his generation's finest thinkers' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art 'This is a book I want every athlete, aspiring leader, entrepreneur, thinker and doer to read' George Raveling, Nike's Director of International Basketball 'Inspiring yet practical' Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience. In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures. The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.
Download or read book 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying written by Dr. Karen Wyatt and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hospice doctor and caregiver shares 7 inspirational lessons she’s learned from her patients—plus daily practices to help you incorporate them into your life. “Clearly and succinctly written, and with deeply profound insights . . . highly recommended.” —Ken Wilber, author of The Integral Vision Karen Wyatt has been privileged to share the final months, weeks, days and moments with many of her patients. This unique experience has given her a profound insight into death and dying. In this book she shares her story and the stories of her patients, providing us with 7 key lessons that the dying can teach us. • Lesson 1: Suffering: Embrace Your Difficulties • Lesson 2: Love: Let Your Heart Be Broken • Lesson 3: Forgiveness: Hold No Resentments • Lesson 4: Presence: Dwell in the Present Moment • Lesson 5: Purpose: Manifest Your Highest Potential • Lesson 6: Surrender: Let Go of Expectations • Lesson 7: Impermanence: Face Your Fear Each lesson is a wake-up call inviting to us to live our lives more fully, with more connection and less regret. With each lesson Karen provides a clear analysis of the importance of that lesson and then goes on to share daily practices on how we can live the teachings as a spiritual practice.
Download or read book Sh t Your Ego Says written by James McCrae and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Don’t read this book,” your Ego says. “Your life could change. And that scares me.” Sometimes our worst failures lead to our greatest transformation. In 2012, James McCrae left behind a comfortable life in Minnesota and a successful career in advertising to move to New York City and pursue his dreams of being a writer. Soon after he arrived, Hurricane Sandy ripped through the eastern seaboard. New York City was underwater, and James —jobless and running out of money—was suddenly homeless. Fleeing to the island of Culebra for refuge, James sat alone on Flamenco Beach while his greatest doubts and insecurities rose to the surface. What he discovered was his Ego—and it had a lot of sh#t to say. This story of adventure, redemption, and transformation reminds us that we all have two voices inside us: the Ego and the Higher Self. The Ego is our reactive, attached mind that tells us we’re victims of circumstance. The Higher Self is our source of intuition and imagination that reminds us we’re the creators of our reality. Sh#t Your Ego Says exposes the battle between these voices. With arresting honesty and candid, compelling prose, James takes you through practical strategies for overthrowing your Ego and reclaiming a life of creativity and freedom. Whether you’re looking to achieve meaningful career success, improve your relationships, or unlock your imagination, this book provides a no-nonsense roadmap to living with purpose.
Download or read book Soul Awakening written by Barry Martin Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the world ever been more in need of the peace, love, and stillness of the soul? The discord, violence, and destruction that are all too common the world over attest to the soul-forgetting that is epidemic among humanity. As integral aspects of the Divine, we are designed to live in peace, joy, and harmony. But asleep to our true, essential nature, we create dis-ease, limitation, and suffering. Thus, the crises that surround us cannot be fixed out there, for their fundamental cause lies within. Only a radical reorientation of consciousness, a fundamental inner shift from ego to soul, will enable us to find our way through the perfect storm of challenges that lie before us, individually and collectively. For more than two decades, the authors of Soul Awakening have facilitated direct experiences of the inner divinity that is our true Self. This book relates the journey that brought them into this capacity, and summarizes all that they have learned about what expedites connecting with and living from the soul. Guided inner journeys into the soul realm enable readers to directly experience the luminous, loving presence of the true Self, and access its wise counsel and healing power. The simultaneous process of transcending ego and awakening to the soul is humanity's next evolutionary step. As a guide to the journey, Soul Awakening provides potent evolutionary support for all phases of the process. Because it relates actual experiences of awakening -- those of the authors, as well as their clients during soul-awakening sessions -- Soul Awakening contains a living transmission of the energy and consciousness of the essential Self. The stories presented here center around the archetypal passages and initiations in the journey of awakening, along with the consciousness tools the authors used to meet the challenges they faced. Vicariously experiencing these transformational journeys allows readers to "download" the holographic process of awakening and experience it within their own consciousness. The evolutionary stimulation in Soul Awakening is relevant to beginners on the spiritual path as well as those who have deeply explored the spiritual world for decades. Many who have meditated for years have not yet experienced a direct, palpable immersion into their indwelling divinity. Soul Awakening provides guided inductions into the soul realm within, as well as the domain of the vast, multidimensional Self. Utilizing these inner processes over time facilitates the fundamental, all-important shift from identifying with the ego to knowing we are a vast, multidimensional soul. As the inner luminosity of the soul comes forth, we birth the Luminous Self that has lived within us forever, waiting to be rediscovered and embodied. With a Foreword by Kiara Windrider, Soul Awakening is the first book in the Birthing the Luminous Self trilogy. Subsequent volumes to be released during 2011 are entitled Agents of Grace and We Are the Awakening Christ.
Download or read book The Ego Less SELF written by Cardwell Nuckols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a society, we have become so accustomed to ego-based emotions like misery, worry, fear, and conflict that we believe these are the norm. This is not the truth, however. We were born to be happy and love unconditionally—it's the gift of self. How can we return to a non-linear state of happiness and peace when everything around us says that nothing is more important than me, me, me? The Ego-Less SELF is a journey of discovery and a return to the self by "one of the most influential clinical and spiritual teachers in North America." It looks closely at the notion of "spiritual transformation" by first showing readers how the ego develops over time to cause suffering in our lives. Once the ego is stripped away, then the historical pathways to the self—heart, mind and action—can begin to work. With a broad range of spiritual influences, from the Bible to the Dalai Lama, personal stories of enlightenment, and real employable strategies and techniques, The Ego-Less SELF sets out to deflate the ego to let the true self shine through. Readers will begin to learn how to get rid of resentments, surrender the ego's unconscious programs for happiness, and employ simple techniques to increase contact with consciousness through the right-brain hemisphere. The road to self is not about trying to acquire anything but rather the willingness to surrender all of our culture's egotistic ways, thus taking us back to that which we are—the purest self. The Ego-Less SELF is the GPS for the journey.
Download or read book Self Realization written by Hubert Benoit and published by Graham Rooth. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not enough religion in science, not enough science in religion: where and when will a world view emerge which incorporates and transcends these two determining aspects of our civilization? Hubert Benoit was someone who incorporated these conflicting perspectives creatively into his work as a psychotherapist. This book was completed towards the end of his life and contains a distillation of his thoughts and experience.
Download or read book Ego written by Tim Geary and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's never been done before, so Saul Weissman decides to do it. The century's greatest retailer is going to create the first ever male supermodel to launch his new cologne. All that employee Miles Jensen has to do is find the perfect man. Two weeks, twenty-four time zones and countless agencies and nightclubs later, Miles returns to New York with six possibles - among them an Italian playboy, a British ex-army officer and a Brazilian Casanova. They may be worlds apart but they're all hungry for the six million dollar contract. Some of them want it more badly than others. One will stop at nothing to get it.
Download or read book The Evolution of the Ego written by Sue Dumais and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey with Sue as she creates a deep awareness and a profound understanding of the nature of the ego. The ego serves a purpose in our lives until one day it doesn't. The challenge is when that day comes, the ego rejects the idea that it no longer serves a purpose and it highjacks our mind convincing us that we can't live without it. The ego is a clever shape-shifter and master of many disguises that are designed to manipulate us and keep us stuck in its programmed cycle of fear. Sue has been studying the ego for more than a decade. The insights she shares provides a road map and foresight for your journey allowing you to be a step ahead of your ego, equipped to navigate its antics and possible path of evolution. This book is designed to support you in unwinding your ego and all the ways it is embedding fear into your life. It is not about denying our humanness; it is about embracing our humanness and embodying our divinity all at the same time. It is about allowing us to be a full expression of our unique Self and to play the role we are meant to play in this life as we contribute to the healing and awakening of all of humanity.
Download or read book Ego Hubris written by Harvey Pekar and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.” –Harvey Pekar Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland? First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle–though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It’s strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he’s exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn’t cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . . Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice’s tales, “Fish Story,” which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey’s first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy’s life. Ego & Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He’s an intransigent kid, a hard-ass–both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can’t live up to your parents’ expectations, at least you can live up to your name. Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams–until now. And just as Harvey’s been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Life Without Envy written by Camille DeAngelis and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one artist to another, a helpful guide and a meditation on the nature of the ego and its toxic effects on the creative process Life Without Envy by Camille DeAngelis is a game-changer for artists of all stripes: a practical guide for navigating the feelings of jealousy, frustration, and inadequacy we all experience to create a happy life regardless of how your career is (or isn’t) going. In these pages you'll find strategies for escaping the negative feedback loop you get stuck in whenever you compare yourself to your fellow artists. You'll begin to resolve your hunger for recognition, shifting your mindset from “proving yourself” to making a contribution and becoming part of a supportive creative community. Best of all, you'll come to understand that your worth—as an artist and a human being—has nothing to do with how your work is received in the wider world. Life Without Envy offers a blueprint for real and lasting contentment no matter what setback you’re weathering in your creative life.
Download or read book The Ego Trick written by Julian Baggini and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
Download or read book Ego and Spirituality written by Nickolas Martin and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSFORMATION BEFORE TRANSCENDENCE Many of us are working on the spiritual path, are trying to get on it, or are unaware that this path exists. We all face a significant obstacle—our ego. An unconscious, imbalanced ego can delay, distort, disturb, or destroy our efforts to transcend the issues of our humanity, walk the spiritual path, and deepen our spiritual consciousness. Ego and Spirituality: The Consciousness of Egospiritualism speaks the message that we must transform and heal our ego—not dissolve, disown, or defeat it—in order to merge our humanity and divinity. Only then can we more fully transcend into a deeper spiritual consciousness.
