10 Top Lessons From The Book “Ego Is The Enemy”

• Ego Is The Enemy reveals how a tendency that’s hardwired into our brains

– the belief the world revolves around us and us alone – holds us back from living the life it makes us desire so much, what we can do to overcome it at every turn .

1. Talk, Talk, Talk

❓ What is scarce and rare? Silence.

The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation.

👉 Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

2. Become A Student

🟢 The pretence of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote.

✅ To become great , you must all know what came before, what is going on now, and what comes next.

3. Don’t Be Passionate

⛔Passion typically masks a weakness.

Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline and purpose and perseverance.

👉What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism.

4. The Danger of Pride

❌Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed : our mind.

✅Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.

5. Follow the Canvas Strategy

🌱That’s what the canvas strategy is about — helping yourself by helping others.

🟠Making a concerted effort to trade your short – term gratification for a longer – term payoff.

6. What’s Important to You?

❓On an individual level, however, it’s absolutely critical that you know who you’re competing with and why, that you have a clear sense of the space you’re in.

7. Meditate on the Immensity

🧘🏻‍♀️Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one – up those around you.

🤓 Let the feeling carry you as long as you can. Then when you start to feel better or bigger than, go and do it again.

8. The Effort is Enough

☝️Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self – satisfaction in knowing you.

Do your work. Do it well. Then “let go .” That’s all there needs to be.

🟢Recognition and rewards — those are just extra. Rejection, that’s on them, not on us.

9. For Everything That Comes Next, Ego is the Enemy…

🔸Not to aspire or seek out of ego.

🔹To have success without ego.

🔸To push through failure with strength, not ego.

10. Epilogue

👉Every day for the rest of your life you will find yourself at one of three phases: aspiration, success, failure. You will battle the ego in each of them.

🟢You will make mistakes in each of them. You must sweep the floor every minute of every day.