The Greatest Enemy of Success - Ego is the Enemy

In this video I'll be going over some important lessons from the book Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday that have helped me deal with my own ego.

00:00 Intro
01:14 Pupil
03:37 Process
10:58 Perseverance

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[stephen-finance]

I really liked this point. To paraphrase: Focus on giving your best effort in doing anything, and don't worrying whether or not the outcome will imply anything about who you are. Your failure or success in any task and who you are, are two separate things.

[vasseurbeauty]

Wow so many amazing messages in this book and so well articulated- I’m adding this to my reading list !

[freishia]

Congratulations on 2Million....The beginner mindset was a great tip. Students for life is the mantra.

[ElonRax]

Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard. Thank you for this honest and inspiring video Ali!

[centralcore_]

I feels like Ryan Holiday's books kinda have a superpower. After reading "the obstacle is the way", even before practicing the ideas in my life, I see many changes in my life, especially in my mind. After reading "Ego Is The Enemy", I feel the same way. And now, I get a chance to watch incredible video on that. Thanks, mate. Wish you all the best

[ZoeysMusings]

The G in the thumbnail? Legendary. The comic book artwork? Legendary. Ali out here looking like a whole snack while sharing his insights on checking our egos is a whole mood and then some.

[finalbox]

My takeaways from the video
#1 Have a beginner's mindset
#2 Don't visualize your goals too often
#3 Focus on inputs, not outputs

[madhavgupta]

Ali you just raised the value of your content by adding those drawings in between

[thecosmopoet]

The humility which ali radiates in his videos is just.... awe inspiring. Way to go ali!!

[magikarpslapper]

When you have a lot of something the value of just 1 of those things seems comparatively small.

This applies to subscribers as a metric. I think it's important to remember that each subscriber is a unique person - and to have 2 million of these individual personalities tuning in regularly to a single person is beyond incredible.

Great video, thank you.

[rongitmukherjee]

Love how there's a "focus on the journey rather than the destination" aspect to most of the things you talk about.

[scienceskills]

"Stop making public your future projects to prevent procrastination." 💪🏻

[RohanYesudian]

Book club is definitely my favourite series on this channel!

[nishinkareem]

The tip about negative visualisation really resonated with me. I think that’s what it takes to get me to hustle a lot more than positive visualisation. The latter puts me in a calm and relaxed mood and I do less. Great tip! Thank you 😊

[abdullahsajid]

Literally! that happens with me all the time. whenever i tell someone about what i am up to i loose all my motivation to do it. i can 100% relate

[nabilhossain]

How humble and reflective an individual!

[kghakunamatata]

I agree that negative visualization can be a great tool, but I think that it is very important to acknowledge its downsides too. Negative visualization when taken too far is basically catastrophization, which is an important symptom of anxiety, which frankly is a productivity killer.

[rongitmukherjee]

Love the sketches that you've been adding in the past couple of your videos!

[vihangatech]

*“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.”*

[MichaelNealeYT]

Literally started this book a couple days ago. Recently discovered Ryan Holiday and Stoicism and it's changing my life