Ego Is the Enemy

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

Ego has cost the people I admire hundreds of millions of dollars,

that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The result was a sort of treadmill of pain and frustration, and I needed to figure out why—unless I wanted to break in an equally tragic fashion.

There is no one moment that changes a person. There are many. During

ambition, achievement, and adversity.

type of storytelling in which eventually your talent becomes your identity and your accomplishments become your worth.

The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other.

Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. The same goes for verbalization. Even talking aloud to ourselves while we work through difficult problems has been shown to significantly decrease insight and breakthroughs. After spending so much time thinking, expla

“If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”