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13 best insights EGO IS THE ENEMY..
The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.
The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
People learn from their failures. Seldom do they learn anything from success.
There’s no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons to be learned, in all that is around us.
You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
Aspiration leads to success (and adversity). Success creates its own adversity (and, hopefully, new ambitions). And adversity leads to aspiration and more success. It’s an endless loop
Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.
Whether what you’re going through is your fault or your problem doesn’t matter, because it’s yours to deal with right now.
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
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