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Exponential Rivalry Self-Destructs

Basic Premises, Ego & Emergence, Therapy & Theory

Welf von Hören
12 min readApr 27, 2020

What if I just let go of my concerns and do it?

What if I just say what’s on my mind?

What if I don’t give a shit about what you would think of it?

What if I finally started expressing these ideas, instead of hoarding them in my ego?

You, dear ego, think it’s okay to cling to your ideas? That won’t move the world forward.

We’ll be practicing authentic relating — to ourselves. Out in the open. Scary, right? There’s no other viable option, apparently.

If there’s any truth to the narratives that keep running this mind, then you, dear ego, are in the way, and you’ll have to excuse yourself. If there is merit to these ideas, then it is time to share them with the world.

With deep irony, genuine sincerity, and an honest conversation between the voices in my mind.

That’s right, dear reader, you’ll get to peek right into the complex and sometimes chaotic innermost of my being and becoming. We’re likely to find different characters, talking to each other as we go along.

One of them is the Ego, the daemon, the shadow— This is the ridiculous one who injects insane amounts of grandiosity into the mind, and then finds all the reasons to back out of actually getting something done. Always wants to be in control. Caught up in a somewhat bipolar struggle…

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