BOOK SUMMARY: EGO IS THE ENEMY

Ego is the enemy book is written by Ryan Holiday. It is one of the best books to improve our self. It’s a collection of thoughts. It provides us another perspective to make our life thorough and encourage us to make changes in our mind-set. According to Ryan Holiday, ego is an unhealthy belief in our self importance wherever you are, whatever you are doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you, your ego.

In the book we read about the things we want to accomplish rather what we want to be in life what is rare is not raw talent, skill or even confidence but humility, diligence and self-awareness. Frank Shamrock, the mixed martial art pioneer and multi title champion have a system, he trains fighters in that he calls plus, minus and equal. Each and every fighter who wants to become great Frank said that they need to have someone better than them they can learn from someone lesser who they can teach and someone equal that they can challenge themselves against.

A true student should be like a sponge that can absorb what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. The students should be self critical and self motivated who can always try to improve his understanding so that he can move on to the next topic, the next challenge. The student should be his own teacher and his own critic. There should be no space for ego. Each human being requires purpose and realism. Here purpose is like passion with boundaries but realism is detachment and perspective.

In the book writer suggest picking a book on a topic we know nothing about. We should put ourselves in a space where we are the least knowledgeable. That uncomfortable feeling, that defensiveness that we feel when our most deeply hold assumptions are challenged what about subjective ourself to it deliberately. We should change our mind, we should change our surrounding. We must remain focused on the execution rather pretending that we are living some great story. We should throw the false crown and continue working on what got us here. It may not be beating another person, it may not be having more than others, but it is about being what we are, and we should try to be as good as possible. It is also about going where we set out to go. It is also accomplishing the most that we are capable of in what we choose.

We so read about dead time and alive time. Robert Greene said that when people are passive and waiting it is dead time. When people are learning, acting and utilising every second it is known as alive time. If we introduce ego into a situation, often prevents us from being rational, objective and clear headed.

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