[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Ryan Holiday]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8WoRcR4Qo --- ## Summary - Ego is an illusory driver on the way up. It sets us up for a more dramatic and crushing failure on the way down. - Be honest with yourself. Express yourself. - Be humble. Be confidence. Be kind. Be bold. - Keep learning. ## Notes - Successful people. Their main enemy is inside them. It's ego. - Ego is the enemy. It holds us back. It prevents us from learning. It makes us complacent. It makes us overreach. ### Aspire - Ego manifests differently ad different phases of our lives. - On the way up, it prevents us from learning and actually growing because we consider things "beneath us". - [[You cannot learn that which you think you already know]] ### Success - Ego makes you complacent. Makes you entitled. Makes you think you're unreachable. Makes you difficult to work with. - At this stage, ego is dangerous and self destructive, leading successful people to fail (fall). ### Failure - We experience a set back. If you've only embraced your ego on the way up coming down feels crushing. You feel less than. - Ego is problematic when we experience set back. - [[Set backs are a fact of life]] ### Confidence - [[Confidence is the opposite of ego]] - Confidence is based on real skills, real work, and reality. ## Original ![[Ego is the enemy. Summarized by Ryan holiday.jpg]] ## See also - [[Honestly expressing yourself]] - [[Always learn. Humility. Keep working hard.]] - [[Always be yourself]]