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Name: Ego is the Enemy
Rating: 3.617647058823 (34 reviews)
Author: Ryan Holiday

Ego blinds us at every stage: stifling early learning, hiding flaws in triumph, and magnifying setbacks when things falter. "Ego Is the Enemy" draws from literature, philosophy, and history to illustrate how some of the world’s most influential figures—George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt—successfully subdued their own egos. Holiday offers practical tactics for readers to master humility, reduce self‑promotion in the age of social media, and focus on meaningful, world‑changing work.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: Self-Help & Personal Development/Personal Growth

Authors: Ryan Holiday

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