{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Notes on Wisdom W/John Walt","title":"Egoic Structures - No. 48","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":783,"description":"“Most of what we think just isn’t so.” - Larry Mills \nThere are many things in our culture that are accepted as immovable “realities” that are actually just collectively accepted ideas. More than just being ideas, they are wrong or, at the very least, untrue. We take most of these completely for granted and never think twice about them. That is because we are taught in a million different, often subtle ways that these things are true. I call these culturally accepted false realities Egoic Structures. Most of these false realities our society takes for granted only exist because of human ego. When I use the word “Ego” I am referring to both our over inflated sense of self and our sense of individual identity that comes from how we see ourselves in comparison to others. In this note I will walk you though some examples of ego structures, the role they play in our lives and why it matters that we recognize them. \nJohnWalt.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4vRahSPckjetjNCFuCNA_m-GPmxdO8pvKxy1RfecBFI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNzg1/OWNiMDE2ZThiYmUz/NWQzYjRiZmJiMWI4/N2NlMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}