It’s not about keeping it in check, just orienting toward longer-term goals. Tell your ego that by being nice, not only could you learn something useful for status-boosting, but you could gain an ally, plus the admiration of onlookers.
What are your best tricks for keeping your ego in check? Like how do you restrain yourself from trying to score points on a sincere but misguided interlocutor when, if you were nice, you might both learn something?
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I like the idea of being partners with your ego, I associate that with tantric buddhism
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what do you think the Socratic method was invented for?
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making people mad
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The approach I'm still developing is to only make statements that are both point-scoring and nice, such that a well-intentioned interlocutor collapses the wave-function one way instead of the other. I'm not there yet, but I think the method holds promise.
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oh I like that idea! like friendly judo somehow
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"how do you restrain yourself from trying to score points on a sincere but misguided interlocutor " wait were we supposed to be doing that
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I don’t even try. Immediate petty point-scoring operations commence at slightest excuse. I only check ego by accident or due to genuine confusion.
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