Defuse defensive reactions to critical feedback by waiting one full day before responding
Ben Elton on Blackadder, Mr Bean & Writing TV Classics — The Romesh Ranganathan Show · The Romesh Ranganathan Show
Identify and neutralize ego before it sabotages your growth
Ryan Holiday Returns (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast) · Ryan Holiday
Test strategy by imagining what must be true for it to succeed
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works · A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin
Document your failures to normalize setbacks and maintain perspective
Adam Grant - The Man Who Does Everything · Adam Grant
Your home is whatever you love more than you love yourself
Success, Failure, and the Drive to Keep Creating · Elizabeth Gilbert
Ego sabotages you differently in aspiration, success, and failure — manage it in each phase
Ego is the Enemy Summary · Ryan Holiday
Seek information that proves you wrong, not right
Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong · Annie Duke
Cultivate inner freedom
Inward · Yung Pueblo
Build an organization that can prosper far beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles
Built to Last · Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
Your higher-level conscious self must manage your lower-level emotional self to make better decisions and avoid self-sabotage
Principles: Life and Work · Ray Dalio
Sixteen contrasting pairs of self-protective armor and courageous leadership behaviors that distinguish defensive from wholehearted leading
Dare to Lead · Brené Brown
Hard on the merits, soft on the people
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in · Roger Fisher & William Ury
Everyone looks in the same direction at the same time
Six Thinking Hats · Edward de Bono
Six colored hats for six directions of thinking
Six Thinking Hats · Edward de Bono
Reconcile with authority to unlock your full power and agency
The Hero With a Thousand Faces · Joseph Campbell
See things for what they are, not what you wish them to be
The 50th Law · 50 Cent & Robert Greene
Supreme excellence is breaking resistance without direct conflict
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Convert adversity into fuel for greater inner complexity
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Know thyself
Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer) · Andrew Huberman
Cultivating the void within
Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer) · Andrew Huberman
Understanding the Ego
Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer) · Andrew Huberman
Embracing change
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin · Andrew Huberman
Adapt your identity and skills to survive and thrive in any environment.
Transform Pain & Trauma Into Creative Expression | David Choe · Andrew Huberman
Keep a modest view of yourself so you can take risks, change your mind, and move fast
Twelve and a Half · Gary Vaynerchuk
Hold beliefs like religion until the market, not opinions, tells you otherwise
Twelve and a Half · Gary Vaynerchuk
Combine deep learning with emotional sensing to develop market intuition
Twelve and a Half · Gary Vaynerchuk
Detect takers early and adjust your giving strategy to avoid exploitation
Give and Take · Adam Grant
In an age of leverage, one correct decision is worth more than a thousand hours of effort
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Eric Jorgenson
Detach your ego from your ideas so that changing your mind feels like discovery, not defeat
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know · Adam Grant
Face the raw, unfiltered truth about yourself every single day.
Can't Hurt Me · David Goggins
Systematically eliminate, delegate, or streamline tasks that pull you from your highest work
Clockwork · Mike Michalowicz
Lead through curiosity and development, not ego and talent-worship.
Mindset · Carol S. Dweck
Advance your career by making everyone around you look good first.
Ego Is the Enemy · Ryan Holiday