A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key, and Obstacle is the Way - over 1 million copies sold''Re-read it each year. It''s that important'' Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want''Ryan Holiday is one of his generation''s finest thinkers'' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art''This is a book I want every athlete, aspiring leader, entrepreneur, thinker and doer to read'' George Raveling, Nike''s Director of International Basketball ''Inspiring yet practical'' Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power It''s wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It''s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It''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 - of ambition, of success and of resilie
