He offers insights into how to understand and counter your ego so it doesn’t stop you from living up to your potential.

Further, he discusses the ways an unchecked ego can destroy your success at three different periods: first, as you’re striving for success, second, as you’re trying to maintain the success you’ve achieved, and third, when you’ve lost success and need to recover from failure. In his book, Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author and marketer Ryan Holiday defines ego as a sense of superiority that makes us see everyone around us as either subservient or oppositional. Ego Is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent This Ego Is the Enemy book review takes a look at the book’s inspiration and background, intellectual context, and its key strengths and weaknesses. However, Holiday argues that ego leads far more often to failure and that people find success only when they are able to subdue it. In Ego Is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday defines ego as an unhealthy belief in one’s own importance that goes beyond mere confidence He notes that many successful people are famously egotistical, and he contends that as a result, society tends to think that ego is an important ingredient in success as if ego leads to accomplishment.

Is Ryan Holiday’s Ego Is the Enemy worth reading? Why does Holiday argue that ego kills success notwithstanding the fact that many successful people are famously egotistical? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to 'Ego Is the Enemy' by Ryan Holiday.

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