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Welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod. This series our theme is Sleep! Invoting you to contribute your thoughts about sleep, and I’ll be introducing ideas from Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’.

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A final episode on Ego, closing our series. Walk the Pod will return on Monday 20th April. If you’d like to vote for our next theme, you can do so by joining the walk the Pod lunchtime walk club on Patreon.

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A summary of some of what we’ve discussed this series plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club.

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In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’.

On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’.

Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension.

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Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat.

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Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’.

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Everyth in g we’ve disxussed so far this week, plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club.

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Discussing various leaders and how ego drives behaviour this lunchtime.

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Welcome to your walk, and episode 3 of our new series on the theme of Ego.

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Introducing Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex and Hanlon’s razor.