Manage your ego ⇒ replace it with earned confidence and humility. You don’t want to entirely suppress ego ⇒ strive for less ego ⇒ strive for thinking less of yourself. Ryan wrote this book ( Ego is the Enemy) because it’s the book he wished existed at critical turning points in his own life.įor purposes of this book, ego = the group of traits including selfishness, delusion, arrogance, greed, and endless competitiveness ⇒ it’s what we mean when we say “someone has a big ego”.Įgo is not the same as confidence ⇒ confidence is earned, ego is stolen.Įgo drives us to success, but it also makes us vulnerable.Įgo causes us to blame others for our problems. He is a media strategist, the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer. He’s founder of the creative advisory firm Brass Check. Ryan Holiday is an American author of 10+ books.
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