{"id":181309,"date":"2019-10-23T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=181309"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:02:51","slug":"i-am-my-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/i-am-my-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"I am my Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stronger ego is the best ego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do we think the ego is the enemy? What if our ego was our wisest and most divine guide, and the root of all our intelligence and strength?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are our ego. If we want to strengthen ourselves, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we also strengthen our ego?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no ultimate right or wrong. Therefore \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are never right or wrong. We simply assert our own opinions and how we believe the world&nbsp;<em>should<\/em>&nbsp;be (the philosopher as a legislator of the future).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to strengthen your ego<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Listen to the opinions of others, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste energy disagreeing with them. Simply incorporate their ideas which are good, and reject what you disagree with.<\/li><li>Powerlifting: To have a strong ego you must strengthen your body. Physical prowess is essential.<\/li><li>Ignore news, media, and all popular media.&nbsp;<strong>All popular media is bad, and will poison your mind and weaken you.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stronger ego is the best ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DD39B2DD-9261-4F7A-8C8D-B60BE72C1AE8.jpeg?fit=1800%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181310,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181309\/revisions\/181310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}