519: Ryan Holiday | Ego Is the Enemy
The Art of Charm
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4.7 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | By the way people who don't know you are the director of marketing for American apparel correct |
| 0:04.7 | Yeah, it's a somewhat ntraditional company |
| 0:06.9 | So it wasn't like a day where I magically got the title, but I was |
| 0:10.9 | 21 22 years old right before I graduated from undergrad in college where I've literally accomplished nothing other than getting into college and not feeling out |
| 0:19.5 | Right you would already had a position where most people probably wouldn't have gotten until maybe their late 30s or early 40s |
| 0:27.8 | Generally for something like that is that right? Yeah, that's right and look you can tell yourself that story and that leads to you thinking |
| 0:35.3 | You're a lot better than you are or you can tell yourself I had to remind myself at the time like obviously |
| 0:40.7 | It's great for my career to have this title and I'm an leverage everything I can out of it |
| 0:44.8 | But I also have to remember like this is not necessarily the equivalent position of being the director of marketing at |
| 0:51.6 | Avacromy and Fitch like there are different companies on different levels different circumstances that being said the |
| 0:56.7 | stresses and the responsibilities and the |
| 1:00.8 | Temptations were all there and the education was certainly there as well, but it was a whirlwind for Sherman |
| 1:07.2 | You mentioned earlier the idea that guys like Stephen Pressfield who've sold a ton of books might turn around and say well |
| 1:14.2 | You know, I'm no jet can field or whoever's name pops up |
| 1:17.7 | What if you have that and you're not just keeping your ego and check but for me for example |
| 1:22.8 | I actually kind of have the opposite problem not that I will make you go so and check it's a problem it |
| 1:27.4 | That's not what I'm saying self-conscious is actually more like it literally. I'll spend the entire Friday |
| 1:32.9 | Going through hundreds of emails 90% of which are like this show changed my life. I love this |
| 1:38.0 | I can't believe it's free. I want to meet you sometime and I'm thinking this is really cool |
| 1:42.3 | But I'm not floating on top of the world like Jenny will say crime me a river you have 300 pieces of fan mail in your inbox |
| 1:48.5 | You should be on top of the world. I'll find myself saying either out loud or to myself. Yeah, but look at like Joe Rogan |
| 1:54.6 | I show is so huge is so impressive |
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