Things Your Ego Needs to Hear
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You don’t care about men as much as you think you do.
Things Your Ego Needs to Hear is a collection of hard truths about women, men, and the ego. It talks about attachment, rejection, jealousy, cheating, competition, validation, being wanted, being chosen, and the amount of psychological power women can give these experiences without realizing it.
A lot of emotional intensity gets mistaken for how much a woman cares about men when, in reality, it’s telling her something about herself. And being able to see that clearly is part of self-mastery.
This book brings those things back to the woman. What is your ego actually responding to? What has being wanted been doing for you? Why does rejection have the power that it does? What does another woman bring up in you? Why can someone you don’t even respect still affect how you see yourself? Why can a man you don’t want anymore still have so much psychological importance?
Self-mastery requires knowing yourself accurately, including the parts of yourself that are uncomfortable to look at. The more accurately you understand what is happening inside of you, the less power you have to unknowingly hand over to other people.
That is where this becomes a matter of personal sovereignty. Not because you stop having an ego or stop reacting to things, but because you understand your own reactions well enough to stop confusing them with what you actually care about.
You may find that a lot of what has had power over you only had that power because you thought it meant something that it didn’t.