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  1. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    For your work to have truth in it, it must come from truth. If you want to be more than a flash in the pan, you must be prepared to focus on the long term.
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    We tend to think that ego equals confidence, which is what we need to be in charge. In fact, it can have the opposite effect.
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    It's not about kissing ass. It's not about making someone look good. It's about providing the support so that others can be good. The better wording for the advice is this: Find canvases for other people to paint on. Be an anteambulo. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    We must understand that we are a small part of an interconnected universe. On top of all this, we have to build an organization and a system around what we do-one that is about the work and not about us.
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.
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  7. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    You're becoming who you are going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
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  8. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures
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  9. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin," Montaigne
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  10. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    Failure and adversity are relative and unique to each of us.
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  11. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    Take it. Eat it until you're sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. Play the game. Ignore the noise; for the love of God, do not let it distract you. Restraint is a difficult skill but a critical one."
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  12. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don't stand in your own way. . . . Do you know how you can tell when someone is truly humble? I believe there's one simple test: because they consistently observe and listen, the humble improve. They don't assume, 'I know the way.
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