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Book: Ego Is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don't live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if-especially if-it's uncomfortable. Be part of what's going on around you. Feast on it, adjust for it. 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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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Reversals and regressions are as much a part of the cycle of life as anything else.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Leaders like Belichick and Merkel know that steak is what wins games and moves nations forward. Sizzle, on the other hand, makes it harder to make the right decisions.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Is that to say that managing your image isn't important? Of course not. Early in your career, you'll notice that you jump on every opportunity to do so. As you become more accomplished, you'll realize that so much of it is a distraction from your work - time spent with reporters, with awards, and with marketing are time away from what you really care about. Who has time to look at a picture of himself? What's the point?
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can't bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can't absorb a few blows, it wasn't worth anything in the first place.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
The performance artist Marina Abramovic puts it directly: "If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
When, as the football coach Bill Walsh explained, "self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes reckless abandon." This is the ego, as the writer Cyril Connolly warned, that "sucks us down like the law of gravity.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Practice self control. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to deal with. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how great your connections are, how much money you have. When you want to do something - something big and important and meaningful - you will be subjected to treatment ranging from indifference to outright sabotage.Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doens't degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
Find canvases for other people to paint on. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself. Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room - until you change that with results.
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Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy
When our cause is young, we feel so intensely that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out isn't going to hurry the journey along. The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion. Not naïveté. It'd be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead - humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through. Leave passion for the amateurs. Make it about what you feel you *must* do or say, not what you care about and wish to be. Then you will do great things. Then you will stop being your old, good-intentioned, but ineffective self.
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