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Book: Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
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  1. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    That uncomfortable feeling, that defensiveness that you feel when your most deeply held assumptions are challenged-what about subjecting yourself to it deliberately? Change your mind. Change your surroundings.
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    Passion typically masks a weakness. Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline, for mastery, for strength and purpose and perseverance. You need to be able to spot this in others and in yourself, because while the origins of passion may be earnest and good, its effects are comical and then monstrous.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    hell am I to write it? My story is not particularly important for the lessons that follow, but I want to tell it briefly here at the beginning in order to provide some context. For I have experienced ego at each of its stages in my short life: Aspiration. Success. Failure. And back again and back again. When I was nineteen
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    Most trouble is temporary… unless you make that not so. Recovery is not grand, it's one step in front of the other. Unless your cure is more of the disease. Only
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    storytelling in which eventually your talent becomes your identity and your accomplishments become your worth. But a story like this is never honest or helpful. In my retelling to you just now, I left a lot out. Conveniently omitted were the stresses and temptations; the stomach-turning drops and the mistakes-all the mistakes-were left on the cutting-room floor in favor of the highlight reel. They are the times I would rather not discuss: A public evisceration by someone I looked up to, which so crushed me at the time that I was later taken to the emergency room. The day I lost my nerve,
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    The investor and serial entrepreneur Ben Horowitz put it more bluntly: "The hard thing isn't setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal.… The hard thing isn't dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.
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    If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead." He
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  8. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity." Just
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  9. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    As a young basketball player, Bill Bradley would remind himself, "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
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    There's no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons to be learned, in all that is around us.
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  11. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    It's a temptation that exists for everyone-for talk and hype to replace action."
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