| Okay I just finished watching the blueprint and I had an epiphany I had to share.
Like a year ago I saw this movie called "Revolver", it was a great psychological thriller about the ego. It completely changed my perspective about how I see myself. What I realized was that all of my motivation came from trying to live up to an image of myself that I had created in order to please other people. When I realized that, I realized that I could be happy simply by existing. If I had no pressure to be or do anything, I had no stress or negativity in my life. I was simply content with existing. Which is an extremely overwhelming feeling. It allowed me to be anyway I wanted to be and do anything I wanted to do. I had complete freedom, complete self-esteem, and inner tranquility.
It was great. But there was one problem. I didn't have any motivation. Without my ego driving my decisions, I had no reason to do anything. When you are content with existence and happy with nothing, you have no drive to do anything.
Then I found it in the "Blueprint", right action. Dr. Paul had mentioned it in David D's inner game series. His rule was "When you don't know what to do, do the right thing". His premise was that most negativity stems from inaction, and that inaction kills self-esteem. That if we are taking action and making change, we are in control of our own lives and self-esteem and confidence will be an natural byproduct.
So basically, right action must be your driving force. Don't do things for the credit or admiration of other, but solely because it is the right thing to do. This probably sounds apparent, but when you put it in context of how one lives their entire life and makes every decision, it's not quite so obvious.
The ego's greatest trick is make you think that you are your ego and that your ego is you. It's so hard to make the distinction between one's ego and one's true self, because it has been part of you for so long. But once you learn to transcend your ego, the world becomes so much easier and clearer.
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