“Understand Id, Ego and Super Ego to Achieve Success in Your Life” - Professor M.S.Rao

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven." - John Milton

Sigmund Freud came up with several ideas and insights on psychology during his lifetime. Of which Id, Ego and Super Ego are very prominent. Id is an instinctive, irrational and imaginative one at the core of human mind with animal traits. Id can be compared with a demon. Ego is rational one that decides what is right and wrong and negotiates with Id and slows down Id’s irrational and irrational ideas. Ego can be compared with a human being. Super Ego emphasizes on ethical and moral values and pursues great things and practices great values to stand out. Super Ego can be compared with an angel.  Hence, the human mind is trifurcated into three compartments - Id, Ego and Super Ego where Id, Ego and Super Ego are synonymous with demon, human and angel respectively.  Let us illustrate them with some examples here:

When a man finds a beautiful girl he wants to have sex with her by any means due to the influence of Id. Then Ego intervenes and advises not to think irrationally and act instinctively. It implores to talk to the girl for consent and weigh the pros and cons before having sex thus acting rationally.  Super Ego intervenes and advises to love her, get her consent, and marry her to have sex regularly to enjoy a pleasant life thus emphasizing on moral and ethical values.

Here is another example where a man wants to become a millionaire by any means due the influence of Id.  Then Ego enters and advises him to be rational and adopt right means and methods to become a millionaire. There is shift in human mind from irrational to rational. Finally, Super Ego intervenes to emphasize on ethical values in order to achieve the goal to become a millionaire. Hence, there is a constant battle between Id, Ego and Super Ego leading to conflicts within the mind which is known as intrapersonal conflict.

To conclude, crush your instinctive and irrational ideas and replace with rational and ethical values to excel as a fine human being. Remember, no man is entirely good and no man is entirely bad as there are some positive aspects in every negative person and some negative aspects in every positive person. Understand Id, Ego and Super Ego and appreciate the realities and grow as a great person.

“The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.” - Robin Sharma

Life is great!

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013

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“Merits of NLP” - Professor M.S.Rao

"Organizations in the future will manage feelings, beliefs, perceptions and values - the asset of emotional capital - as the hidden resources with the power to translate people's knowledge into positive action." - Kevin Thomson, author Emotional Capital (1998)

Recently I led a webinar titled, “21 Success Sutras for Leaders” organized by Time Group in India. It was based on my authored book published by Pearson Education. At the end of the webinar, there were a number of questions by the participants on leadership and one question on the merits of NLP came up. I felt that there is enormous significance attached to NLP. Hence, I decided to blog on its importance.  

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was coined by when Richard Bandler, John Grinder and others in 1970s. It works on the premise that although you cannot change the world you can change the way in which you represent the world in your thinking. It helps you achieve excellence.  It is helpful as a teaching and learning tool. It helps in personality development, improves communication skills and brings out behavioral changes to achieve all-round success in your life.  Here are some more merits:  

NLP helps you become the way you want to become. It changes your mindset. It helps you achieve excellence by bridging the gap between what you don’t have and what you want to have. It helps in your attitude building and empathizing with others. You look at the world differently and from others’ perspective. It helps you find out your weaknesses and strengths and guard you from your weaknesses. It brings you awareness that people think differently and how to align and adjust your thinking with others’ thinking and vice versa. It is rightly said that a battle is won twice first in your mind and then in real life. Hence, it bridges the gap between your vision and execution to accomplish your goals.

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

References

Introducing NLP Sue Knight, Universities Press

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Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013

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Email: profmsr12@gmail.com

Blog: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com

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Publication of Professor M.S.Rao’s Book – Smart Leadership: Lessons for Leaders

Dear friends,

I would like to share the successful publication of my authored book, “Smart Leadership: Lessons for Leaders.” Globally renowned management thinkers and leadership guru including Marshall Goldsmith (Recognized as the most influential leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50 2011/HBR! He’s also been recognized as one of the top ten most influential business thinkers in the global bi-annual study!), Vijay Govindarajan (World's Third-Ranked Management Guru), Frances Hesselbein (President & CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute), Dipak C. Jain (Dearn INSEAD) Kevin Cashman, Emmett C. Murphy, Richard Chang, and John Renesch endorsed this book. Fons Trompenaars who has been ranked #42 management thinker in the world by Thinkers50 2011 wrote foreword for this book. Here are the details of the book:

Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd

ISBN 978-81-207-7415-5

Price: INR 200/- (Paperback)

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About the Book:

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.” - Stanley Lindquist

It is rightly said that the wise person learns from the experiences of others whereas the foolish person learns by his/her own experiences. The book helps you become a wise person by learning from the experiences of others.  It packs with several case studies on various international leaders with illustrations and examples such as Peter Drucker, Marshall Goldsmith, Frances Hesselbein, Florence Nightingale, Barack Obama and Steve Jobs.   It inspires you to learn from their success stories and assists you to discover your blind spots thus enhancing your leadership effectiveness and success.  It is a “short course” on leadership useful for people who lead hectic life to excel as smart leaders. Precisely, the book is well punched and presented to ensure valuable takeaways for readers.  The book is useful to leaders at all levels including entrepreneurs, educators and life-long learners.

I would appreciate if you could read the book, and provide your valuable feedback. 

Life is great!

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013

Speaker Wiki: http://speakerwiki.org/speakers/Professor_MSRao

Email: profmsr12@gmail.com

Blog: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com

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