Ego is the Enemy (Book Review)

The book is called Ego is the Enemy for a reason and I think it’s true. Its point basically is that anything you want to do in life, any goal, your ego is always going to be your biggest enemy and in this entire book is just its perspective and different historical examples of people who let their ego stop them from being successful.

Then the book will give you a different perspective on someone who didn’t let their ego stop them from being great and it compares the two perspectives and why the difference in mindset is so important to how that can equate to extremely different results in your life.

When you’re starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities. First, you’re not nearly as good or as important as you think you are. Second, you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted. And finally, the most of what you think you know or the most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

The above is very obvious because that one is just super impactful, this was really very straightforward as well too but I liked it the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. It kind of ties back to the last thing that I mentioned before where even if you have this big vision or idea, it’s going to take a lot of small steps on a daily basis for a very long period of time until that grandiose vision actually becomes reality.

Whether what you’re going through is your fault or your problem doesn’t matter because it’s yours to deal with right now. So no matter what or how you feel about the cards you have been dealt, it’s up to you to not make any excuses and just accept the cards you were dealt and play the best hand that you can possibly play every single day with that hand.

In other words, you can be a victim of something (in the end we are all victims in some scenario) but the important thing is not to victimize yourself. Well, the situation in which you find yourself right now is only the starting point of your game, the important thing is how you are going to play or in other words how much you are going to strive to reach your goal.