Post Categories Post Categories Follow Welloflostplots on Follow me on Twitter!īook Review of Lauren Groff’s Matrix /9/boo… 1 day agoīook Review of Love and Virtue /2/boo… 1 week agoīook Review of The Island of Missing Trees /9/boo… 1 week agoīook Review of Wild Place /5/boo… 2 weeks agoīook Review of Fancy Meeting You Here welloflostplots.wordpress. Ordered the next one the minute I finished the introduction. Memorable are discussions of Katherine Graham, John DeLorean (like from Back to the Future), Orson Welles and Jackie Robinson. The real-life and historical examples continue to wildly entertain and illustrate. And the only clear pathway through each that allows us to learn and grow is to put ego aside and learn what we can from success and failure. It goes through a three-step cycle that Holiday reminds us is inevitable and continuous – Ambition, Success and Failure. Regardless, Ego is the Enemy is just as good as The Obstacle is the Way – although perhaps a little harder to read in the sense that it hits so close to home – the whole purpose of the book is for you to reflect on yourself and your driving forces. I never thought I would ever say I was too tired for fiction, but I think I might be. It’s the perfect read for me right now – delightful bite-sized musings, genuine insight and it stimulates my tired brain without it having to imagine fictional worlds. I was delighted to find this second of Ryan Holiday’s books arrived so much sooner than I expected and i found myself abandoning book after book to give myself permission to read this. Get the book today and let me know what you think. Holiday’s insights carry a lot of resonance and the book is helpful for shifting mindset towards the things that matter in life. He lives outside Austin, Texas, with his family. The enemy of self-growth and the enemy of being a better human being.

His books have been translated into over 30 languages and sold over two million copies worldwide. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience”. He is a sought-after speaker, strategist, and the author of many bestselling books including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, and The Daily Stoic. “There’s a quote from Bismarck that says, in effect, any fool can learn from experience.

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