Omar Usman – 3 Lessons from Ego Is The Enemy Ryan Holiday
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Hey, guys. Omar Usman here. Welcome to my
new YouTube channel. On this channel, I'm going
to be doing book reviews but not in
the traditional way. I'll be doing 3 lessons
that I've learned from a book in 3
minutes. Today, we're doing 3 lessons in 3
minutes from the book Ego is the Enemy
by Ryan Holiday.
And Ryan Holiday, by the way, has quickly
turned into one of my favorite authors. He's
got a couple of other books, Trust Me,
I'm Lying and The Obstacle is the Way.
I'll be reviewing those later as well, but
let's dive into this one for right now.
The lesson is that self awareness is the
most critical skill a person can master. Holly
talks about in the book how a lot
of us grow up with an entitlement mentality
that if you put your mind to it,
you can accomplish anything.
And what this does is it actually makes
us weaker and it creates an entitlement to
success where we think that we deserve for
something to happen to us and we're not
willing to put in the work. Instead, he
says that we have to be very critically
self aware. What are we good at? Where
are our weaknesses?
And be focused on the process. Be action
and education focused, but be iterative,
not having these very large visions about what
we're gonna succeed at, but be action and
education oriented.
The second lesson the second lesson is that
without the right values,
success will fail. And he talks about how
a lot of people, as they move to
the top,
they have they look back at their past
with almost like a revisionist history, and they
make themselves out to be these mythological figures
that have accomplished all these great things,
and that they can do no wrong. They've
accomplished all these amazing things, and now everyone
else around them is wrong, and they're right,
and they've essentially drunk their own Kool Aid.
And so what you have to do instead
is make sure that you have values driving
you. Instead of telling the story about yourself
and making yourself the hero about what you've
accomplished and what you've overcome,
your focus about your story should actually be
your values. My integrity,
my ethics, the things that I do on
a day to day basis, that's where I'm
focused on, not the narcissistic,
egotistic
version of myself.
And the last lesson that I wanted to
share
is he says that we have to change
the definition of success.
And he says we have to change the
definition of success
to process instead of outcomes. And he gives
a great example.
The New England Patriots famously
drafted Tom Brady with the very last pick
in the NFL draft. He wasn't a 1st
rounder, a 2nd rounder, a 3rd rounder, and
now he's gone on to win multiple Super
Bowls. Now the Patriots could easily say, well,
that's great. We succeeded.
We hit the ultimate outcome. We got a
Super Bowl a multiple Super Bowl winning quarterback.
But he said when they did that, they
actually went focused on the process. That what
was broken in our drafting system, that we
overlooked him for 5 or 6 pounds and
didn't draft him. That's the 3 lessons for
today. Make sure you hit subscribe and the
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