{"id":2645,"date":"2018-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/vlogs\/ego-enemy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:20:22","slug":"ego-enemy","status":"publish","type":"vlog","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/ego-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Session: Ego is the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/TH3_0850.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Jul 19, 2018                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Videos<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Summit Session: Ego is the Enemy<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/human-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/leadership-culture-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leadership &amp; Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/summit-session\/\" rel=\"tag\">Summit Session<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/ego-enemy\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/ego-enemy\/&#038;text=Summit Session: Ego is the Enemy\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Summit Session: Ego is the Enemy. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/ego-enemy\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/ego-enemy\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">Author Ryan Holiday on the fight to master our greatest opponent.<\/p>\n                            \n                                                                <div class=\"video video__inline\">\n                                        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/280670225\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n                                    <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Holiday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author: Ego is The Enemy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It&#8217;s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It&#8217;s made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy &#8211; of ambition, of success and of resilience. We&#8217;ll explore how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Everyone can achieve a different level of success, but how is the best way to calculate that? By realising your potential.<br \/>\n\u2022 It\u2019s not always enough to just win. There\u2019s a fair amount of luck that coincides with winning at times. To not rely on luck, you should be the best version of yourself that you can.<br \/>\n\u2022 You can prepare all you like, but sometimes you\u2019ll feel the opportunity of success slip away. Instead of doing all you can to claw that chance to succeed back into grasp, you should take a step back and understand the principals and values you set out in the first place.<br \/>\n\u2022 Ego will stand in the way of what you want, and it will keep you from becoming a master of your craft.<br \/>\n\u2022 It will also stop you being creative. It will stop you being a good team player. It will stop you retaining, or sustaining success.<br \/>\n\u2022 To truly have a holistic view of what success could look like for you, you need to look at yourself from a distance. Get our of your town head. Detach.<br \/>\n\u2022 It\u2019s natural to be invested emotionally in your own work. But if you are, do it with humility, and be self-aware.<br \/>\n\u2022 Things will always go wrong. That\u2019s a fact. To guard against this, you have to be proactive and anticipate failure. 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