The Board of Ego Directors

Metaphorical Narrative

It arrives like a boardroom door swinging open. A table of invisible directors clears their throats and pronounces: “You are interfering in our affairs. We hired you to serve us.”

The scene is ridiculous. Who exactly are “they”? There is no contract, no HR department, no payroll. It’s ego in a trench coat, stacking up chairs and pretending to be a whole committee. The power play is simple: if it can frame you as the servant, it gets to sit as the master.

Core Insight

This voice is not authority — it’s parody. Ego thrives by multiplying itself into a “we,” a fake plurality that sounds bigger than it is. The tactic works because the brain is wired to respect group pressure. A single voice can be ignored; a phantom committee feels harder to challenge.

But the truth is immediate: there is no “board.” There is only ego trying to inflate itself into legitimacy. You were never hired. You don’t serve.

Identity Shift Tie-In

Stepping into Observer Mode here means seeing yourself not as the employee but as the owner of the building. Ego has rented no office. Its “directors” are squatters in your mental real estate. Identity-level sovereignty is reclaiming the role of landlord: you decide who gets to speak, and under what conditions.

Saturday Experiment

For 24 hours, whenever this “board” speaks, respond with one sentence out loud or in writing: “There is no board — I own the building.”

• Notice how fast the authority costume collapses.
• Feel the return of choice as the fake committee dissolves.

Sunday Reflection

• If a friend was being told “you are interfering in our affairs,” how would they laugh at it?
• How would an Observer describe the difference between a real group decision and this parody voice?
• What shifts when you remember you’re the landlord, not the employee?