Accounting High 073 Your Ego is Your Enemy | #FreshBookReports Vol. 4
Episode 73 | Recorded May 27, 2022
A Fresh Book Report @ Accounting High
with Scotty Scarano and Twyla Verhelst, CPA
Today's Book Report is on Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Ever felt like you’re the king of the world? Or like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders? When was the last time you felt like you won? Or the last time you felt like you lost? What and who got you there? Our Ego, if left unchecked, clouds our vision and prevents us from reaching greater heights. It affects us not just in moments of success but in our failures as well. Do you have too much pride to ask for help? Look in the mirror and gauge yourself. Listen in as Scott and Twyla attempt to defeat their greatest enemies, themselves.
4 - Your biggest enemy is yourself and you’re more likely to be what gets in the way than anything else
7 - The three components: Aspire, Success, and Failure
Shoutout to Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
8 - Aspire: losing touch with reality and letting your pride block what’s in front of you
Shoutout to Frank Shamrock
10 - Find your Plus, Minus, and Equals in life and in business
Shoutout to Catherine Graham, Angela Merkel
15 - You get confidence, but if you’re not careful, it takes you too far
17 - Once you taste that success and you feel like you know it all… That’s gonna lead to failure
20 - Beware of the disease of me
Shoutout to Pat Riley, Steve Jobs, Kanye West
22 - A lot of awareness and intention is required to keep us from becoming our own barriers
25 - A monk is separate from all and in harmony with all
27 - Failure: being defined by your success that you can’t even define yourself when you fail
36 - Was it them? Was it me? Or is it the circumstances that got us here?
37 - Every step of the way, Ego is the Enemy
39 - We may think that we're never equipped to get there, but there are definitely people like you that have gotten there and even past that
Shoutout to Kenji Kuramoto, Nikole Mackenzie, CPA