Ego Is the Enemy
Ego tracked through aspiration, success and failure, doing different damage at each stage.
Ryan Holiday structures the book around three stages — aspiration, success and failure — and argues ego is the common threat to all of them: it stops you learning early, distorts judgement in the middle, and makes recovery impossible at the end. Historical examples throughout, in the Stoic tradition.
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Derek Sivers
Forget yourself and focus on the work. Be humble and persistent. Value discipline and results, not passion and confidence. Be lesser, do more. This message is crucial, but the opposite of almost every other book. I wish everyone would read this.
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