Why Most Self-Help is Ego Dressed as Enlightenment

12/04/2025 15 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3

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🎙️ Episode 3 — Why Most Self-Help is Ego Dressed as EnlightenmentHint: It’s not healing. It’s branding.Everyone’s journaling, breathworking, manifesting.But what if most of it isn’t growth — just ego in a spiritual costume?In this episode, we peel back the influencer glow and expose the dark truth beneath the self-help boom:👉 A trillion-dollar industry feeding off your insecurity — and calling it empowerment.This isn’t just about bad advice.It’s about a culture that profits from your pain — and sells you mindset hacks instead of healing.We dissect the self-help illusion using the Integrated Thinking Stack (ITS) — layer by brutal layer:🧠 Why consuming wisdom ≠ becoming wise (Cognitive Cleanse)⚖️ How self-help shifts blame onto the suffering (Moral Intelligence)🌍 Why you keep buying books but never break the cycle (Systemic Foresight)🧍 What your nervous system actually fears — and why (Embodied Insight)👥 How behavior design traps you in healing theater (Human-Centered Design)📉 What happens when the gurus fail you (Risk & Resilience)⚙️ How to stop performing and start transforming (Execution Engine)This episode isn’t for the faint of heart.It’s for the seekers who’ve outgrown the soundbites.If you're done confusing aesthetic for awakening — hit play.

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