Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

unhealthy belief in our own importance.

Or a want/desire/craving to be important, or at least sometime who a lot of people depend on, or is needed by a lot of people

We can’t recognize opportunities—or create them—if instead of seeing what is in front of us, we live inside our own fantasy.

the moral gray area that our ego loves to exploit.

Bismarck that says, in effect, any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience.