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