Ep. 171 - Ryan Holiday: The Powerful Enemy of Your Success
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.4 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:11.2 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.4 | You actually say the opposite of ego, which is kind of a formula for success, |
| 0:20.2 | is to be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success, |
| 0:24.6 | and resilient in your failures. |
| 0:27.4 | But how do you cultivate those? |
| 0:29.4 | Thoughts are not facts. |
| 0:31.4 | Thoughts are just thoughts. |
| 0:33.2 | I realize that I've created this very rigid definition of the universe, |
| 0:36.8 | like rules that I've been insisted on following all the time. |
| 0:41.8 | To some extent, you say ego is the enemy, |
| 0:44.4 | it seems like it's the enemy of a lot of things, |
| 0:45.8 | but one thing it's probably the enemy of almost the most is curiosity. |
| 0:50.2 | This is the hard part of writing and doing books that nobody talks about either. |
| 0:54.8 | It's not what you do when you sit down to write. |
| 0:57.6 | That's more the easy part. |
| 0:59.2 | It's the figuring out what you're going to write and what's the best way to do it. |
| 1:02.8 | That's the difference between a book that sells 10,000 copies and a book that sells a million copies. |
| 1:13.8 | So Ryan Holiday, how many times have you been on this podcast? |
| 1:15.8 | This is three? |
| 1:17.8 | Three, yeah. We had you on with obstacles the way. |
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