Ego is the Enemy

It is common to see in the environment the obstacles to achieving our goals. However, there is a powerful inner enemy that is actually the cause that prevents us from moving forward in many ways: the ego. At the beginning of our careers, the ego prevents us from learning and developing talents. If we achieve success, it blinds us to the point that we deny our own failures; and in the face of failure, the ego magnifies any failure and makes it more difficult to recover. The ego, at any stage, is the real obstacle to our personal and professional growth. Hence, in this book Ryan Holiday takes us through powerful lessons, tactics and strategies on how personalities from diverse occupations and fields managed to placate their ego (that distorted version they had created of themselves) as the first step to achieving higher levels of self-knowledge and influence. In an era where individuality and self-promotion are privileged, it is necessary to understand what the ego is and how to master it before it dominates our lives.