عن المؤلف | Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His books like The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies. Together, they've spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys...and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main St in Bastrop, Texas. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. It’s wrecked the career of promising young geniuses. It’s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It’s made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. It derails ambition, turns success into poison, and makes failure the most bitter taste of all. Its name? Ego. Ego is the enemy―of what you want to achieve, of what you have, and what you’re struggling to overcome. It’s an internal opponent warned against by every great philosopher, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in every culture, in every age. In the pages of this book, we fight to destroy it before it destroys us. Read more |