Andrew Huberman· PhD
So there's an idea which sometimes gets called an observing ego, right? The ability to stop and look at what's going on inside of ourselves.
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So there's an idea which sometimes gets called an observing ego, right? The ability to stop and look at what's going on inside of ourselves.
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So there's an idea which sometimes gets called an observing ego, right? The ability to stop and look at what's going on inside of ourselves.
There are other words to put to it, but it's not ego in a negative sense. Here, it means the ability to stand outside of oneself and go. And to really think about oneself without the negative emotion, we're often able to either see the trauma, for example, or see the change.
What sometimes gets called an observing ego and this is how we can both be state-dependent, but also have a self that that is true across all of those states.