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  1. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Epictetus told his students, when they'd quote some great thinker, to picture themselves observing the person having sex. It's funny, you should try it the next time someone intimidates you or makes you feel insecure. See them in your mind, grunting, groaning, and awkward in their private life-just like the rest of us.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. -GOETHE
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. -THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The
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  7. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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  8. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    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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  9. Ryan Holiday _ Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to

    We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition will not be grandiose but iterative-one foot in front of the other, learning and growing and putting in the time.
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  10. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    We've all done it. Said: "I am so {overwhelmed, tired, stressed, busy, blocked, outmatched}." And then what do we do about it? Go out and party. Or treat ourselves. Or sleep in. Or wait. It feels better to ignore or pretend. But you know deep down that that isn't going to truly make it any better. You've got to act. And you've got to start now.
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  11. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. -EPICTETUS
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  12. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Andrew Carnegie famously put it. There's nothing shameful about sweeping. It's just another opportunity to excel-and to learn. But you, you're so busy thinking about the future, you don't take any pride in the tasks you're given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn't who I am, it doesn't matter. Foolishness. Everything we do matters-whether it's making smoothies while you save up money or studying for the bar-even after you already achieved the success you sought.
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