Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. One of the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous defined ego as “a conscious separation from.” From what? Everything.

Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress.