Two types of ego @OfficialFlagrant

So this is what's really interesting. So

in the west we're very familiar with

narcissism, right? And narcissism is

like I have a big ego. So I'm the best.

I'm better than everybody else.

Everybody should, you know, get in line

to spend time with me. There's another

kind of ego, this gets a bit technical,

called damic ego, which is just as

powerful of an ego, but it is negative

in direction. I'm a loser. I'm pathetic.

I'm an incel. And if you try to talk to

a narcissist about how they're not the

best on the planet, they will never

understand. And if you talk to an incel,

which I've done a lot about how they're

not pathetic, you're not a loser.

You're, you know, like you've had some

bad experiences, but believe in

yourself, man. That low self-esteem is

also ego. Because the really strong

thing is I I I I

>> And when I work with patients who are

depressed, it's really interesting what

they say. I'm a loser. My family is

better off without me. My kids would be

so much better if I was not alive

anymore. Everyone at my job hates me.

But it's still me me.

Which is what's really interesting

because if we look at meditation and

psychedelics and their usage and

treatment refractory depression, the

mechanism through which they work is

they shut off a part of our brain called

the default mode network. This is the

part of our brain that gives us

self-awareness and allows us to think

about ourselves and self-reflect. So

when someone is hyper super depressed,

they're constantly thinking about

themselves. I'm a loser. I'm pathetic.

When someone is narcissistic, they're

constantly thinking about themselves.

Mhm.

>> When we shut off that part of the brain,

that's what correlates with healing and

depression, healing from some degrees of

trauma. And meditation shuts off that

part of the brain, too. So then we start

thinking about myself, right? That's

sort of like I'm not trying to get an A

in class. I don't I'm not looking at my

grades. That's I I don't care about

achievement. It's just I'm going to try

to learn medicine as best as I can. So

once the default mode network shuts off,

and this is why people with psych who

use psychedelics like they feel

connected to everything. I realize I

wasn't what I thought I was. This whole

life has there's this bigger purpose,

this grander thing.