Ryan Holiday on Ego is the Enemy

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🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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How does our attitude toward ourselves affect our success or failure in the world of business or in friendship? Ryan Holiday, author of Ego Is the Enemy, talks with Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the role of ego in business, our personal lives, and world history.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:34.3	Today is June 29th, 2016, and my guest is business strategist and author Ryan Holiday.
0:40.8	His latest book is Ego is the enemy, which is our topic for today.
0:45.4	Ryan, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:47.1	I'm so glad to be here.
0:49.1	So why is Ego our enemy?
0:51.1	A lot of people, I think, would say it's her friend, and why would you write a book about
0:54.6	it?
0:56.1	I think Ego, I guess maybe to borrow a phrase from your book and to Adam Smith, is Ego
1:02.8	is not very lovely, right?
1:04.6	It's selfish, it's competitive, it's arrogant, it's often delusional or unrealistic.
1:15.6	So again, I'm not talking, I'm talking Ego in the colloquial sense, not Ego in the Freudian
1:20.8	sense, which frankly, I don't even really understand.
1:23.8	You know, the sort of grouping of traits that we might associate with, say, a Donald Trump
1:29.7	or a dictator or a delusional celebrity, right?
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