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In this video you will learn the ego is the enemy summary by Ryan Holiday. I give the book a rating so that turns it into an ego is the enemy review. This is not an ego is the enemy animated book review like most people do - I thought I'd just keep it personal and share with you the most important lessons you can learn from the ego is the enemy by ryan holiday.

The Book in Three Sentences
Ego is an unhealthy belief in our own importance.
Ego is there undermining us on the very journey we’ve put everything into pursuing.
Ego can be managed and directed.
The Five Big Ideas
At any given time in life, we’re aspiring to something, we have achieved success, or we have failed.
We must cultivate humility, diligence, and self-awareness if we are to remove ego.
Maintain your own scorecard.
Don’t fake it ’til you make it—make it.
Always stay a student.
Ego Is the Enemy Book Summary
“The orator Demosthenes once said that virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.”
“Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego.”
“The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.”
“With every ambition and goal we have—big or small—ego is there undermining us on the very journey we’ve put everything into pursuing.”
“Just one thing keeps ego around—comfort.”
“At any given time in life, people find themselves at one of three stages. We’re aspiring to something—trying to make a dent in the universe. We have achieved success—perhaps a little, perhaps a lot. Or we have failed—recently or continually.”
“Ego is the enemy every step along this way.”
“Your ego is not some power you’re forced to satiate at every turn. It can be managed. It can be directed.”
“When we remove ego, we’re left with what is real.”
“You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head.”
“What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”
“For your work to have truth in it, it must come from truth. If you want to be more than a flash in the pan, you must be prepared to focus on the long term.”
“We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition will not be grandiose but iterative—one foot in front of the other, learning and growing and putting in the time.”
“So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
“Talk depletes us. Talking and doing fight for the same resources. Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a