Best of: Ego is The Enemy with Ryan Holiday
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
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 | One of the hardest things to do is to separate your work from and what your effort that you put in from the results that might come out of it. |
| 0:11.0 | So it's like think about it. It's like an actor, an actor doesn't |
| 0:15.1 | control the movie around them. They don't control what the other actors do. They don't |
| 0:19.7 | control the marketing budget. They don't control the distribution. So, you know, they the could mess it up in post-production, right? |
| 0:32.7 | And so if your happiness with your job and your career |
| 0:38.3 | is dependent on how the movie does at the box office or how the critics respond to your role. |
| 0:46.7 | You have now placed your happiness with your own life in the hands of other people and that's a recipe for profound disappointment. |
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| 2:20.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
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