Best of: Ego is The Enemy with Ryan Holiday

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Join us on Unmistakable Creative for a profound conversation with Ryan Holiday, a strategist, writer, and bestselling author. In this episode, Holiday discusses the concept of ego and how it can be a significant obstacle in our personal and professional lives.

Discover the importance of separating your work and the effort you put in from the results that might come out of it. Holiday shares his insights on how not having control over every aspect of your work can lead to disappointment if your happiness is dependent on the outcome.

He also delves into his journey, from dropping out of college at age nineteen to apprenticing under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, to serving as the director of marketing for American Apparel. Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in personal development and entrepreneurship today and gain insights that could transform your life and career.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free life of purpose ebook.
0:24.7	What you have to do is go to unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:28.0	Again, that's unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose.
0:32.3	One of the hardest things to do is to separate your work from and what your effort that you put in from the results
0:41.4	that might come out of it. So it's like, think about it. It's like an actor, an actor doesn't
0:47.3	control the movie around them. They don't control what the other actors do. They don't control
0:52.3	the marketing budget. They don't control the
0:54.3	distribution. So, you know, they could, they could do the role of a lifetime, but then the director
1:00.3	could, or the editor could mess it up in post-production, right? And so if your, if your happiness
1:08.6	with your job and your career is dependent on how the movie does at the box office or how the critics respond to your role, you have now placed your happiness with your own life in the hands of other people.
1:24.6	And that's a recipe for profound disappointment.
1:32.3	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window
1:36.8	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started
1:40.8	movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created
1:44.7	insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
1:55.6	Ryan, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:59.0	It's amazing to be here. You were one of
2:01.4	the first podcasts I ever did, and so it's, I feel like it's coming full circle talking again. Well, it's, you know, it's really cool to have you back here. I mean, you know, for people who are listening, this is the third time we've actually had you on the show, and you're one of the few people that has made it back for a third appearance, which really, I think, says a lot about
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