Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent - Softcover

Holiday, Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781257027 ISBN 13: 9781781257029

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key, and Obstacle is the Way - over 1 million copies sold''Re-read it each year. It''s that important'' Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want''Ryan Holiday is one of his generation''s finest thinkers'' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art''This is a book I want every athlete, aspiring leader, entrepreneur, thinker and doer to read'' George Raveling, Nike''s Director of International Basketball ''Inspiring yet practical'' Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power It''s wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It''s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It''s made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience. In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures. The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.

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About the Author

RYAN HOLIDAY is a bestselling author and media strategist. He dropped out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, and later served as the director of marketing for American Apparel. His company, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors. Holiday has written several other books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages and has a cult following among NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities, political leaders, and others around the world. He lives on a small ranch outside Austin, Texas. Visit www.RyanHoliday.net.

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It’s wrecked the career of promising young geniuses.
 
It’s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground.
 
It’s made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame.
 
It derails ambition, turns success into poison, and makes failure the most bitter taste of all.
 
Its name? Ego.
 
Ego is the enemy—of what you want to achieve, of what you have, and what you’re struggling to overcome.
 
It’s an internal opponent warned against by every great philosopher, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in every culture, in every age.
 
In the pages of this book, we fight to destroy it before it destroys us.

Edition details

• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781257027
• ISBN 13: 9781781257029
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 226