OoM 065: Your Ego is the Enemy with Ryan Holiday
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Many of us, as men believe that we need to have it all figured out in order for us to be successful. It's the old adage, "Fake it 'til you make it."
And, while confidence is certainly something you'll need to gain in order to have success, the fine line between it and ego has the ability to destroy it. My guest today, the one and only Ryan Holiday shares how confidence is earned while ego isn't, the dangers and pitfalls of an inflated ego, and how to get out of your own way.
Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. After dropping out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He served as director of marketing at American Apparel for many years, where his campaigns have been used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube, and Google and written about in AdAge, the New York Times, and Fast Company.
His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying—which the Financial Times called an "astonishing, disturbing book"—was a debut bestseller and is taught in colleges around the world.
He is also the author of two other books that have been instrumental in heling me achieve success in my life, The Obstacle is the Way and his latest - which he is here to talk about with us today - Ego is the Enemy.
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| 0:00.0 | Many of us as men believe that we need to have it all figured out in order for us to be successful |
| 0:03.8 | it's that old-addaged fake it till you make it and while confidence is certainly something |
| 0:07.2 | you'll need to gain in order to have success the fine line between it and ego has the ability |
| 0:12.0 | to destroy that success. My guess today the one and only Ryan Holiday shares how confidence is earned |
| 0:17.8 | while ego isn't the dangers and pitfalls of an inflated ego and how to get out of your own way. |
| 0:24.1 | Your a man of action you live life to the fullest embrace your fears and boldly charge your |
| 0:29.1 | own path when life knocks you down you get back up one more time every time you are not easily |
| 0:35.1 | deterred or defeated rugged resilient strong this is your life this is who you are this is who you |
| 0:42.6 | will become at the end of the day and after all is said and done you can call yourself a man. |
| 0:49.4 | Men what's going on today my name is Ryan Mickler and I am your host and the founder of Order of |
| 0:53.4 | Man I'm glad you're here with us today and if you're new to show welcome this is a show about |
| 0:57.3 | all things manly from health and building wealth to being a better protector and a leader in other |
| 1:02.9 | words this is your one stop shop to learn how to become the man you were meant to be now I've got a |
| 1:08.2 | crazy week this week I'm going to be participating in the Spartan a go get this is a 60 hour team |
| 1:12.8 | building mentally and physically grueling event but I am up to the task I am looking forward to it |
| 1:18.7 | and on top of taking a lot of time to focus on that this week I do briefly want to let you know |
| 1:23.0 | we've got some exciting news it's our inaugural Order of Man uprising and it's now open for |
| 1:28.0 | registration I'm going to be getting you more details on that later in the show but if you're |
| 1:31.6 | interested in some of that right now you can go to Order of Man calm slash uprising to see what |
| 1:36.2 | it's all about now I don't need to tell you that we've got an incredible guest lined up for you |
| 1:40.1 | today we always do but I do want to let you know that you can get all the links the resources the |
| 1:45.0 | quotes and everything else you need for this show at Order of Man calm slash 065 and make sure |
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