The Term Ego Has Acculturated Our World, But What About Our Belief Systems?

It is clear that Freud's psychoanalytic theories has become our basis for understanding personalities in our world.  We use the word ego to explain each other hangup's and behaviors. As I was thinking about today's post, I wondered how does this reflect our belief systems? My understanding of belief systems for this post are Judaism, Islam and Christianity in the West and Eastern belief systems. Do ancient teachings found in the Torah, Koran and Bible support psychoanalytic theory? Or do Eastern belief systems have a clearer indication of ego in their teachings?

Does The USA Have an Ego?

Today I will continue talking about the ego from my experience and personal opinion.
It beats trying to understand Freud's complicated id, ego, superego and reality, that stuff is for school.
However we all experience and live these concepts each day. We may recognize the importance of our ego in our life or we may choose to totally ignore it.

Two days ago I started talking about what tools I find important as someone begins to move toward entrepreneurship. I suggested you must control your ego and not let it control you. If people are going to have any sense of worth, it always comes through discipline and this includes controlling the ego.

We live in a culture that controls and manipulates everything. As a result the USA is the most advanced and wealthy nation in the world. Our gas, fiat money and food is manipulated and managed so that it brings a profit to the originators of these industries. However our homeless and blue collar workers never really receive the true benefit of wealth.

We may be able to say that the founding fathers represent the ego of the US?

Mr or Ms Ego, Can Direct You Down The Wrong Path

Yesterday I started some thoughts on the ego. In the simplest terms this is a person's self-esteem or self-importance. For example I recently played five games of basketball aggravating my sciatica.
Why did I do it? I wanted to be seen by others as the older guy who can still play basketball. What value does it have to anyone? None. This is my exact point, people can find themselves doing things
that have no value at all. Why? They want to been seen in a certain way by others. Make sure you control you your own ego. Also insure your actions have some tangible value toward something.
That's my post for today. Share with you tomorrow.

A New Beginning

 I started this blog to document my return to the world of entrepreneurship  and share the up's and down's of the journey. The thirteen years represents the time I stayed at my last job at the Department of Commerce. The term sophisticated slave is a term my good friend Bill Hill coined African-Americans of today. His notion is that we are still slaves today just a bit sophisticated, but our culture places shackles on our creative liberty to truly thrive and create within the culture.

The blog will also be used to provide some free e-books and promote my new projects. Today, I will just share one important point I have learned on the beginning of this journey. The point is that you, as the entrepreneur must be able to control your ego. It is said by some philosophers that the ego is the result of all hate and war in the world. This is a very powerful statement, but for our purposes we must be vigilant and realize that we must control our ego. We should not let our ego control us. Feel free to comment.

Some may find this impossible to believe. I would suggest that you note how you identify the voices
that you hear in your mind. That's my post for today.