Omar Usman – 3 Lessons from Ego Is The Enemy Ryan Holiday

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

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