10 TOP LESSON FROM THE BOOK “Ego Is The Enemy”

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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.

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