Author: Ryan Holiday
I did not pick up “Ego is the Enemy” by Ryan Holiday because I thought I had a big ego. Like most people, I assumed the book was meant for someone else: the overly confident, the loud, the self-obsessed. I certainly did not think I was being sabotaged by my own ego.
That assumption did not last long. By the time I moved through the first section of the book, it became clear that ego is not always obvious and that was the unsettling part.
What Holiday does so effectively is break the book into three distinct stages: when you are aspiring for success, when you are successful, and when you hit failure.
In each stage, he shows how ego quietly and secretly works against you. Not through arrogance alone, but through impatience, comparison, defensiveness, and the need to validate yourself instead of doing the work.
