Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Like, I actually think ego is the enemy of the ambition that you have.
Like, whatever you're trying to do, like...
What you need is a sense of reality.
You need self-awareness.
You need a sense of connection.
You need truth.
The ingredients to doing what you want to do are, for the most part, not delusion and grandiosity and selfishness.
It's the opposite of that.
So when I say ego is the enemy, I'm not saying think you're a piece of shit.
I'm saying just don't think you're God's gift to humanity.
Confidence to me is somewhere in the middle between those two extremes.
And yeah, chances are ego is causing the problems, not solving the problems, personally or in your organization.
Yeah, look, first and foremost, admitting that you have one and that it is a problem is, like, a critical step.
Like, if I'm sitting here going, like, let me tell you how to conquer your ego because I don't have one, like, be real suspicious.
Because, you know, I mean, my ego causes problems for me all the time.
It's something I try to work on and I'd be aware of.
And knowing that, yeah, success inflates the ego.
Success, it not just inflates the ego, but it enables people around you to inflate the ego, right?
In a way, you need to be more self-critical and aware the more successful you are for the reasons we were just talking about, which is the air is thinner and you get less...
Not only do you get less feedback, but you got this really important piece of feedback that can be really misleading, which is like, you did something that wasn't supposed to be possible.
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