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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    People learn from their failures. Seldom do they learn anything from success." It's
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn't want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Ego Is the Enemy

    ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success. It repulses advantages and opportunities. It's a magnet for enemies and errors. It is Scylla and Charybdis.
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  7. Ryan Holiday _ The 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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