Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
Ryan Holiday splits this short book into three parts, for the person aspiring, the person succeeding and the person recovering from failure, each illustrated with historical cases. The Stoic-flavored argument is that ego distorts feedback and makes both success and failure harder to handle. People report going back to it at transitions.
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- Michael PhelpsRecommends
Olympic swimmer · Most decorated Olympian in history
Says he goes back to Ryan Holiday's book a lot. He listens to most books as audio and pulls out small pieces that echo how he broke swimming down to its simplest parts.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #494: Michael Phelps and Grant Hackett, transcript
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