Sean's AM Journal

[Shannon]

Ego balancing is necessary in AM because as you build the self esteem and self respect and self confidence, it is easy to inflate the false ego unintentionally at the same time. We don't want false ego. We want genuine self worth, without an overblown sense of self aggrandizement.

The highest levels of alpha don't need false ego because they really are all that. But what makes them the highest levels of alpha is that, even knowing that they really are all that, they don't need to say so, or act like idiots because of it. They simply are, and they allow others who have the capacity to comprehend that to do so if they can.

False ego is the enemy of the True Alpha. That's why you don't see true alphas getting into fights to prove how tough they are: they're above that sort of idiocy. The Master knows he has the skill, and does not need to say so, because he doesn't rely on anyone else for his validation of his own skills. Likewise the True Alpha. And when that false ego is controlled, balanced, transformed into true ego (genuine self validation and understanding), he achieves something that puts him in that highest level of alpha-ness: genuine class.

Extended ego balancing means that through the whole program, we are seeking to temper, balance and transform the false ego into true ego.