73: Exploring the Ego with Michael Doyle

This conversation with Michael Doyle (former colleague at Red Hat) explores what we found in Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday and reflect it back on ourselves.

Conversation Highlights & References

• Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
  • Extended bibliography
  • Primary sections: Aspire, Success, and Failure
• Relationship between our values and our ego
• Is ego ever a positive thing?
• Marie Forleo’s interview with Ryan Holiday
• What does your ego look like to you/how does it show up?
• Doing and working over being and having
• Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix series)
• The Rocket Launch approach to getting out of bed
• Blue Collar productivity as described by Steve Chandler
• How ego appears as excuses when we fail
• Setting ego aside to embrace new perspectives or ideas
• Ego and it’s relationship to how much money you need
• Pleasure versus happiness
• How the little things add up to big success
• Create your own definition of success
• Your personal values
  • Write or print out a list
  • Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how well you are honoring them
• The Five Minute Journal by Intelligent Design
  • Useful way to measure success
  • Ongoing retrospectives
• Ego aides us in overestimating our abilities and defeating discipline
• What’s a small daily practice to help you build mastery?
• Learning from failure instead of making excuses
• Hate versus love

Connect with Michael Doyle

• Website
• Twitter

Credits

• Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
• Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod
• Photo supplied by Michael Doyle

All songs licensed under Creative Commons

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