Ryan Holiday
An unhealthy belief in our own importance is the single greatest obstacle to genuine achievement, blinding us during ambition, breeding arrogance in success, and magnifying the pain of failure.
Ego chooses the immediate gratification of talking about ambitions over the unglamorous labor required to realize them.
While passion is emotional, volatile, and self-absorbed, true purpose is deliberate, patient, and focused on serving a higher mission.
Achieving mastery demands remaining a perpetual student, constantly absorbing lessons from both masters and adversaries regardless of how successful one becomes.