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Can you really go from feeling like you're standing on the shoulders of giants one day, and the next you're prying yourself out of the rubble of multiple implosions, trying to pick up the pieces from the ruins?
RYAN HOLIDAY
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Introduction
- Ego is the unhealthy belief in oneself beyond one's confidence.
- The ego is there with us at every stage of our life.
- Ryan divides these life stages into three parts Aspire, Success, and Failure.
- It means our ego is the enemy of building, maintaining, and recovering.
- By suppressing ego, we become humble in our aspirations, gracious in our success, and resilient in our failures.
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Self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes reckless abandon."
BILL WALSH
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Aspire (Part 1)
- During the aspiring stage, one must adopt silence early on. Talking about one's aspirations confuses the mind with actual success.
- Being something is different than doing. Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.
- Holiday advises to stay a student forever. He also mentions that a true student is his own teacher and his own critic.
- Holiday reminds us to not be driven by passion but by reason. Passion is about pleasuring yourself whereas purpose is something outside yourself.
- Create humble beginnings to be great later in life. Clear the path for the people above you.
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The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the paintings.
RYAN HOLIDAY
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Aspire (Part 2)
- Holiday talks about restraint. Our goals must be more important than our ego.
- One must get out of their head and face real challenges to succeed.
- Pride might get to you on your way to success. Holiday asks us to be ready for it and curb it when it appears.
- People say fake it till you make it, but Ryan advises to make it so you don't have to fake it.
- The ego is going to be there at every stage of your life. You have to be conscious of it so it doesn't ruin your chances of success.
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Success (Part 1)
- When you are at the top, it is even more important to keep away from your ego and focus on your growth.
- Know what is important to you alone. Do not copy what others are doing.
- With success, we get delusional about entitlement, control, and paranoia. One must remind themselves at every stage about the limits of their power to prevent this.
- At the peak of success, management becomes quite important. One must not forget that urgent and important are not synonyms.
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If you don't think big picture - because you are too busy playing "boss man" - who will?
RYAN HOLIDAY
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Success (Part 2)
- Let go of the credit if you want to keep your ego in check.
- Always remember you are just a speck of dust in the vastness of this Universe.
- Be sober, do not be intoxicated by ego, power, and position at the peak of your success.
- In short, if you want to maintain success, you cannot let the ego get to you. If you did it once, that does not mean you can do it again.
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Failure
- As per Ryan, when we are not taking any action toward our goals, it is dead time. However, when one is learning constantly, it is alive time.
- He also says that our efforts must be enough for us because results are not always in our hands.
- We will be humiliated time and again on the path to success. It should only make us humble and more deserving of our success.
- History is written by those who keep getting up again and again.
- We must not focus on winning, but rather on being the best version of ourselves.
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CURATOR'S NOTE
If you want to succeed - you must learn to defeat your worst enemy, your ego.
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