ZachariStructured around the three stages of a career (aspire, success, failure) and drawing on everyone from Stoics to Bill Belichick, it’s a book about what quietly kills good work: us, getting in our own way.
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Ego Is the Enemy
Read · March 2026
Thoughts
Every chapter is the same warning from a different century: the ego wants the credit that precedes the work.
Learned
- Aspire: stay a student, keep your head down, let the work talk.
- Success is where ego does the most damage: choose purpose over passion, standards over praise.
- Failure is only informative when the ego stays out of the room.