HeyJaredDeep Thinkers
Seeker of wisdom. Recovering pessimist. Writing these essays to empower and encourage ♾️
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The Heroism of Humility (The Inner Part. 3) (opens the original)
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In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the ego and how it’s a protector, a shell forged during childhood meant to keep us safe from rejection, the pain of failure, and emotional ruin. In Part 2, I explored how that same protector eventually uses pride and compulsive thinking to turn us into our own worst enemies. Pride and ego, when left unchecked, morph into a corrosive disease that can only be beaten by one remedy: humility. <hr /
The Poison of Pride and Mental Loops (The Inner War Pt. 2) (opens the original)
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Welcome back to The Inner War series. In Part 1, we looked at how we build armor to keep ourselves safe. Today, in Part 2, we’re looking at what happens when that armor turns inward, how pride and mental loops keep us trapped in conflict with the people we love most. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4IXa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic
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