Ego Is the Enemy

Here's a bunch of loose notes I gathered as I was reading this book. Some of them are from several years ago, so it's really cool to revisit them.

Great book, highly recommended. It's one of my top book recommendations for anyone curious about self-improvement. It brings a much deeper level of philosophical thinking to the genre of self-improvement.

Book's Chapter What is important to you?

• Greek word: Euthymia(εὐθυμία)
  • Means tranquility.
  • To be the best we can be.
• It's essential to know what you want.
  • It's more important to know why we want it.
    • You might accidentally end up living a life that was not of your choosing.

Success

• Ignore the concept of successful people. Oftentimes their success is not your success.
  • What they call success for themselves might end up not being good for you.
  • Sometimes even what they project as their success is not even fulfilling for themselves.
• It's important to develop an internal confidence that goes beyond external recognition.
  • Not to need anything outside ourselves to call our lives a success.
  • The illusion: the common lie of thinking that once you get what someone else has, only then will you be happy.
  • Find out why you are after what you are chasing.