Ego Is the Enemy

“the stoic thing for you guys is like I was listening to ego's enemy a lot during it cuz I'm like got to keep the ego in check in a way like a bad audience is a good audience for you and a good audience is kind of a bad audience.”

“The whole experience was great and and but to me it was like actually I was listening to ego is the enemy a lot during it because I'm like I was like you got to keep the ego in check like don't become like too and you know it kind of like it was like the dream especially growing up”

“Yeah, yeah, so I went through a similar thing on Ego Is the Enemy; there's a preface to Ego Is the Enemy that I'm in.”

“I sold what became Ego is the Enemy. So I was working on Ego as the Enemy when The Obstacles the way it came out”

“Ryan's book ego the enemy obstacles the way both been really formative for me”

“I was listening to really ryan holidays most recent book not ego is the enemy stillness is the key and he talks a lot”

“One of the books that I reprogramed my brain with at night was called "Ego Is the Enemy".”

“One of the books that I reprogrammed my brain with at night was called 'Ego Is the Enemy.' 'Ego Is the Enemy.'”

“when i saw like a couple months ago i was i was like you know i read ego i read obstacles the way like i think like two years ago”

“and then during quarantine i read ego is the enemy and i started really getting into stoicism”

“I feel like you were able to do that before though with like you you had such a solid grounding with like ego is the en enemy and you know the whole series of stoicism books.”

“obstacle my favorite is ego is the enemy but they're all really great”

“And then honestly like reading books like yours and I I remember Ego is the Enemy was a huge one for me.”

“and you know the and as well as the eagles the enemy and now the lives of the stoics you know so i'm um i'm a big fan”

“i mean books like uh ego is the enemy or you know uh start with why”

“and I did this for ego is the enemy by Ryan holiday and I have them right on the corner my willing windowsill over there”

“Is that in ego is the enemy? Uh where do I tell that story? Um it's not it's not registering for me and I've read a couple of your things.”

“So I I have the obstacles away tattooed here as a reminder. And then I have ego is the enemy tattooed here.”

“like my ego is the enemy came out basically the same month as the subtle art of not giving a and yeah that book probably cumula cumulatively has sold more than all of my books combined”

“I mean, there's whole people in in in Ego's Enemy I have this whole chapter about Ulysses S. Grant that certainly reflects my opinion of him then, but my if I was writing it now it would be very different cuz I have a better opinion of him.”

“In Ego is the Enemy, I have this whole chapter about Ulysses S. Grant that reflects my opinion of him at that time.”

“if I had predicted any of this for The Obstacle Is the Way, I shouldn't have been allowed to write Ego Is the Enemy. be in an institution.”

“Well, and it just never it never there's it uh in Ego's Enemy I have this quote from John Wheeler, the physicist. He says, "As your island of knowledge grows, so does the shoreline of ignorance."”

“Well, and it just never—there's this quote from John Wheeler, the physicist, in Ego Is the Enemy.”

“In Ego's Enemy I have this quote from John Wheeler, the physicist.”

“So I went through a similar thing on Enemy. And there's a preface to Ego's the Enemy that I'm in for that reason.”

“I was writing ironically what would become ego as the enemy”

“I was writing, ironically, what would become 'Ego is the Enemy.' But so I didn't take the lack of success that personally because I was busy doing the thing. And then some random lucky things happened, like Amazon discounted it and it stayed discounted, audiobooks started to take off, some sports teams started to talk about it, and then it”

“which that exact story was in the intro of ego is the enemy”

“Which... that exact story was in the intro of "Ego is the Enemy" and I cut it at some point.”

“Like the book was built around it of "Ego."”

“I have a little aside in ego's the enemy I I I love George Marshall”

“so if Iid waited I probably could have sold what became ego as the enemy for a lot of money a lot more money”

“If I had waited, I probably could have sold what became 'Ego is the Enemy' for a lot of money, a lot more money. But I had sold a proposal version of it while I was still figuring the book out, so I was under contract.”

“are you still dealing with that well not only did writing the book not solve the problem for me”

“like uh obviously I wrote ego as the enemy as American Apparel was pulling itself to Pieces”

“Like, uh, obviously, I wrote Ego is the Enemy as American Apparel was pulling itself to pieces.”

“So if I’d waited, I probably could have sold what became Ego is the Enemy for a lot more money; a lot more money. But I was... But I’d actually sold like a proposal version of it while I was still figuring the book out.”

“It's funny, when I had, I wrote The Obstacle is the Way, I sold Ego is the Enemy, which was in the middle of writing, and my agent, Steve Hanselman, came to me and said you should do a book of a daily devotional of Stoicism.”

“and then I wrote a chunk of egos the enemy and the daily stook on the ranch”

“what I remember is that I was working on ego as the enemy when we talked and I was thinking about what that book would be”

“I mean, like if you if you I would not recommend writing a book called The Obstacle Is the Way, a book called Ego Is the Enemy, a book called Stillness Is the Key, a book called Courage Is Calling, Discipline Is Destiny because then people expect you to be all those things”

“So, the ego is the enemy for instance was my basically my first book after a really successful book.”

“like i was writing um ego as the enemy when american imperial imploded uh primarily driven by ego”

“and I did this in Stillness and if I could rewrite ego I would change it like ego is enemy starts with a preface about me and then it's a book about ego”

“right when right in the middle one of those books is ego is the enemy”

“i wrote a book a few years ago called ego is the enemy”

“and the the ego is the enemy ryan seneca says you know to study philosophy is to annex all the ages into your own”

“because you i think it talked about ego is the enemy”

“like i've liked like people will be like uh i haven't read your book ego is the enemy”

“i mean my ego is the enemy book i think uh i talk about this tension a little bit so”

“have you read uh and i used it as a source in ego as the enemy”

“like my i have this book ego is the enemy and and people go”

“well it's funny because both our mutual friend mark manson and i use this the story of dave mustain in in our i did an ego's the enemy and he did it in uh the subtle art”

“i have a friend michael mallis and he had a book written about him that's called ego and hubris”