Ego Is the Enemy

First, we’re so afraid about what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to criticism. This way we can always be right. Second, if we do put our ideas out there and they are criticized, our ego steps in to protect us. We become invested in defending instead of upgrading our ideas.

Là, on s’apprête à faire quelque chose. On a un but, une vocation, un nouveau départ. Chaque grand voyage commence ici — et pourtant, nous sommes trop nombreux à ne jamais atteindre notre destination. La plupart du temps, l’ego est le coupable. On se construit en se racontant des histoires fantaisistes, on prétend qu’on a tout compris, on laisse l’

when people are close to their own projects or their own talents, they can lose the ability to see objectively. They might think they’ve taken a project or their talent as far as it can go, and, strictly speaking, given an individual’s limitations and inexperience, this may be true. But ultimately, to take a project where it needs to go, you’ll nee

When we are aspiring we must resist the impulse to reverse engineer success from other people’s stories. When we achieve our own, we must resist the desire to pretend that everything unfolded exactly as we’d planned. There was no grand narrative. You should remember—you were there when it happened.