Ego Is the Enemy Hardcover – June 14, 2016

I am currently reading this book. And i highly recommend this one

Insightful and objective sources of ego are introduced by Ryan. The world of success is redefined over the human histories.

Quite basic topic.Writing quality is not that high.Felt like I was reading a college student’s essay, wrote in few hours.

”Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego” is a famous quote by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. Egoism, as opposed to altruism, is to set one’s self-interests as the highest priority. In fact, biologically living creatures are designed to be egoistical in order to sustainably increase survival rate. Reading this book, I was hoping to firstly understand the different levels of egoism - from the common conception of thinking of yourself, to a more egomaniac personality disorder - and secondly to understand how success in life is correlated with the level of egosim. The author behind Ego is the Enemy depicts how successful people (such as Howard Hughes, Katharine Graham, General George Marshall etc) have managed their own ego and the impact this had to their careers. Reading this book, I felt like I was lacking clarity on what ego actually is and how it can be measured. How can we confidently determine the inflection point in which healthy level of ego is transformed into a more harmful character? Are there successful people who reached their success solely thanks to their highly egoistical behavior? I think the topic is very interesting, but unfortunately the author was not able to really deep dive into egoism in a more scientific approach. Instead the book is ”cherry-picking” cases of successful people who controlled their ego while unsuccessful people let their ego run amok. I can not give this book more than two stars.