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Ryan Holiday
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The Ego Is the Enemy
There is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life. -MARTIN
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Duris dura franguntur.
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If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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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. When
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I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in the work-the chance to find yourself. -JOSEPH CONRAD
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Here, we are setting out to do something. We have a goal, a calling, a new beginning. Every great journey begins here-yet far too many of us never reach our intended destination. Ego more often than not is the culprit. We build ourselves up with fantastical stories, we pretend we have it all figured out, we let our star burn bright and hot only to fizzle out, and we have no idea why. These are symptoms of ego, for which humility and reality are the cure.
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That's how it seems to go: we're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. We start out knowing what is important to us, but once we've achieved it, we lose sight of our priorities. Ego sways us, and can ruin us.
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So what is scarce and rare? 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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The novelist Anne Lamott describes that ego story well. "If you are not careful," she warns young writers, "station KFKD {K-Fucked} will play in your head twenty-four hours a day, nonstop, in stereo." Out
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The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote. The
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All of us waste precious life doing things we don't like, to prove ourselves to people we don't respect, and to get things we don't want. Why
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Responsibility requires a readjustment and then increased clarity and purpose. First, setting the top-level goals and priorities of the organization and your life. Then enforcing and observing them.
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