Cy Wakeman (@cywakeman) is the founder of Reality Based Leadership. She wrote a book called No Ego.
No Ego is a leadership book, which is an unusual read for me since I'm a solopreneur, but I couldn't put it down. You might hear me talk about ego from time to time. I think my conversation with Ryan Holiday back on episode 31 was the first time I was really thinking about ego. He wrote the book Ego is the Enemy.
Since then I've come to realize that ego is the number one enemy that can hold you back from reaching your creative potential. Your ego will keep you from being accountable to yourself and what you want to accomplish. It will direct your attention outside of you, and cause you to blame others. It will cause you to make limiting excuses for yourself.
But if you're able to bypass your own ego, something magical happens. You start to concentrate on what you can control. You start to see a connection between your actions and the results you get.
This is what I loved so much about Cy's book, No Ego. It's a powerful book for keeping ego from ruining your workplace, but at the same time it's a powerful book for keeping ego from ruining yourself and sabotaging your own potential.
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290. Leonardo Mind, Raphael World
289. Livestream/AMA: Book Marketing, Motivation, Language Learning, Picking a Project, and Selling Foreign Rights
288. Summary: Old Masters and Young Geniuses, by David W. Galenson
287. David Perell: Being a Hedgehog When You're a Fox, Living With the Twitter Algorithm, Learning from Tyler Cowen, and Building Mass for Leverage
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286. Nobody Knows Anything
285. Crumb Time
284. Curiosity Management
283. Fifteen Years as a Creator. (I'll Never Make It.)
282. How I Put My Book on a Times Square Billboard (What Did It Cost, & Did It Work?)
281. E.R.A.S.E. F.E.A.R. and Finish Your Creative Projects
280. Surround and Conquer (Your Biggest Dreams)
279. Summary: Industrial Society and Its Future (The Unabomber Manifesto)
278. Summary: The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
277. Summary: Trust Me, I'm Lying – by Ryan Holiday
276. How Matthew Walker Ruined My Sleep (& How I Fixed It)
275. Finish What Matters (Forget the Rest)
274. Summary: Balaji Srinivasan – Centralized China vs Decentralized World – The Tim Ferriss Show #547
273. Write on a Typewriter
272. Ode to the Unfinished
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