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Friday Dec 27, 2019
Ep.5 Refrigerator Magnets
Friday Dec 27, 2019
Friday Dec 27, 2019
Chicken Mind Nuggets.
Hosted by Wifey
Chickenmindnuggets.com
@mindchicken
References for this episode
https://cnx.org/contents/Sr8Ev5Og@5.101:Nc0-RFXN@4/Introduction
https://mystudentvoices.com/on-emotions-and-our-ego-372832158ac3
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"Thinking Music" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Show script: (may differ slightly from spoken word)
No one is going to be more-proud of you than you. The people in your life will be happy for you, but you contain your optimal level of excitement based upon what you think you deserve. You can shrug off something you want to dismiss either narcissistically or stoically or celebrate passionately and throw an inner party for your “yae you did it” self. I had a friend come over to my place many years ago and said “oh you have an I love me wall.” I didn’t know what that was, but he was referring to my certificates, degree, and NAM’s I got in the navy and in college that I hung up on my wall. I wanted to take it down after he said it because it wasn’t a display of affection anymore, it was now a loathing self-indulgent wall filled with who I am but nothing more than those papers. So, I did take it down, I filed the papers, and thought about my ego. The ego in the non-crazy in-depth psychology sense is this alter you that lives inside you which tells you that you are important and need to be heard and displayed. It will be the same son of a bitch that will shout at a crowd if you disagree with what they are saying and the same little prick that will get hurt if it hears something it doesn’t like. The thing is the ego can only feel what we have programed it to feel with the stimuli it recognizes throughout our lives. The ego has an emotional response to a situation, but we control the level of emotional intelligence that ego has. Let’s say we see a stimulus which is an article online. We then read it and assign emotions to it based on how we interpret it. Those emotions create feelings which then create our reactions. I can read an article about a war and feel sad which will make me cry or I can read the article and not feel anything which isn’t heartless it’s just a choice I made. We practice our feelings to situations all the time. We practice love to seeing our kids and anger when we see mistreatment, but we don’t practice getting rid of the feelings we don’t want to have anymore. Most of us have learned though classical conditioning that a+b=c like the sound of an ice cream truck means there is ice cream and therefore we get ice cream. Classical conditioning like the Pavlov’s dog experiment in which Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell which signaled food is how we were trained though emotional and physical stimuli and reactions to behave in a variety of situations. In classical conditioning, the behavior can be extinguished through extinction, which means getting rid of the bell all together. Do you have a bell you respond to? Can you take down your I love me wall or the ego behind the pictures behind the refrigerator magnets?
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