Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good and Evil: “Maturity is rekindling the seriousness that one had as a child at play.”
This episode is about ego. Ego not in the Freudian sense, but ego – and its manifestations – as what inhibits us of, as what Josh Waitzkin would call it, “unobstructed self-expression.”
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Obstacle Is The Way
Ego Is The Enemy
Beyond Good and Evil
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