07-23-2013, 11:11 AM
I once had to speak in front of 200 people. I was the best public speaker there ever was.... for the 15 minutes I stood at the podium. Up until that point I was the worst public speaker there ever was. There were times before where I spoke in front of 15 people and I was a nervous wreck. This particular time I was going through some tough challenges in my life and I was under a considerable amount of stress.
Before I got in front of the podium something snapped. Call it a defense mechanism or call it what you want, but whatever it was, it caused me to be the best public speaker in the history of man. My ego and all of it's tangled attachments left the building and the only thing that remained was me.
I was thinking about how doing something out of the ordinary causes someone to change their state profoundly.
Here's a theory I have.
I think the ego is an encapsulation of fears, insecurities, and other things that attach themselves to a person's identity. Of course this is not the person's real identity but the person comes to think it is, which is why we become so attached to our ego. It becomes our precious little enemy that we protect and cherish.
The ego normally deals with everyday life. Things like looking good, saying the right thing, fitting in, dressing properly, being cool.. and the list goes on. But the point is that all of these things are in relation to the everyday activities.
When a person does something that stands outside of those everyday expected activities, or if something is put upon a person that is completely out of the norm, this stuns the ego and as a result it does not know what to do so it goes inactive for a period of time.
The ego gets disarmed.
The ego might be disarmed for an hour or it might be disarmed for 6 hours, but it will always seems to come back once the situation normalizes.
But for the period of time when the ego is disarmed, the true being is allowed to just be.
The true being is superior in every way. It performs better in every way because it does not have the ego in it's way - sabotaging the true being.
So the key is to stun or trick the ego into being deactivated temporarily so that the being can just be for that period of time. When the being is in charge instead of the ego, true greatness is achieved in a short amount of time.
This explains why people act so heroically in extreme situations. The situation is so different than the every day norm that the ego is stunned into deactivation leaving the person with what seem like super powers.
People go to therapy for years just to try and set the ego straight for the long term - or to make the ego healthy. But what if the ego could be deactivated temporarily for situations where high performance is needed.
Before I got in front of the podium something snapped. Call it a defense mechanism or call it what you want, but whatever it was, it caused me to be the best public speaker in the history of man. My ego and all of it's tangled attachments left the building and the only thing that remained was me.
I was thinking about how doing something out of the ordinary causes someone to change their state profoundly.
Here's a theory I have.
I think the ego is an encapsulation of fears, insecurities, and other things that attach themselves to a person's identity. Of course this is not the person's real identity but the person comes to think it is, which is why we become so attached to our ego. It becomes our precious little enemy that we protect and cherish.
The ego normally deals with everyday life. Things like looking good, saying the right thing, fitting in, dressing properly, being cool.. and the list goes on. But the point is that all of these things are in relation to the everyday activities.
When a person does something that stands outside of those everyday expected activities, or if something is put upon a person that is completely out of the norm, this stuns the ego and as a result it does not know what to do so it goes inactive for a period of time.
The ego gets disarmed.
The ego might be disarmed for an hour or it might be disarmed for 6 hours, but it will always seems to come back once the situation normalizes.
But for the period of time when the ego is disarmed, the true being is allowed to just be.
The true being is superior in every way. It performs better in every way because it does not have the ego in it's way - sabotaging the true being.
So the key is to stun or trick the ego into being deactivated temporarily so that the being can just be for that period of time. When the being is in charge instead of the ego, true greatness is achieved in a short amount of time.
This explains why people act so heroically in extreme situations. The situation is so different than the every day norm that the ego is stunned into deactivation leaving the person with what seem like super powers.
People go to therapy for years just to try and set the ego straight for the long term - or to make the ego healthy. But what if the ego could be deactivated temporarily for situations where high performance is needed.
