{"id":31384,"date":"2020-02-27T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31384"},"modified":"2020-02-27T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:04:09","slug":"briefly-its-when-my-ego-is-quiet-that-i-lose-my-fears-of-going-my-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31384","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: It\u2019s when my ego is quiet that I lose my fears of going my own way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Collective-unconscious.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31385\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Collective-unconscious.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Collective-unconscious.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Collective-unconscious-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are times, especially late at night \u2014 when all is silent except for the beating of my own heart \u2014 when I feel my ego become so calm that I feel neither ambition nor fear. In those moments, I know without doubt that I can become successful making the art I need to make. It\u2019s the rest of the day \u2014 when I\u2019m surrounded by other people\u2019s voices \u2014 that I end up filled with hidden fears that no one will love me if I take chances, when I doubt myself enough to run from the things I feel compelled to do. Quieting the ego and tuning my spirit to something which Carl Jung might have called Collective Unconscious are my best ways to stay on the path toward making the dent in the Universe which I was put here to make. This is what I was getting at in the piece I wrote a few days ago about <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my need to be a star<\/a>. As odd as it might sound, that\u2019s faith talking, not ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times, especially late at night \u2014 when all is silent except for the beating of my own heart \u2014 when I feel my ego become so calm that I feel neither ambition nor fear. In those moments, I know without doubt that I can become successful making the art I need to make. <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31384\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31386,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions\/31386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}