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How do I get rid of the False Self the fastest way possible?

Posted on September 28, 2016 by James Scouller

After The Three Levels of Leadership came out in 2011, readers followed up with questions on leadership, leadership psychology and self-mastery – all of them interesting.  So interesting, in fact, that I’m releasing my answers here as they supplement the “Three Levels” material and others may find them useful.  Here’s the seventeenth in the series.   I’ll post the others over the coming months…

Q16. The question I was asked at a leadership workshop was: How do I get rid of the False Self the fastest way possible?  

Answer:

“Consider this, how long have your False Self fears been inside your mind?  I realise you won’t have an exact answer, but you can be pretty sure the answer is, “Most of my life.”

Now what’s the average age of the people on this programme?  40 years?  So in other words, the chances are that your False Self has taken the best part of 40 years to develop.

So what do you regard as “the fastest way possible”?  What is “fast”?  Continue reading →