(Extracted from Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday) You know what the single worst marketing decision you can make is? Starting with a product nobody wants or nobody needs. … products—even whole businesses...
(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) There is an old Zen story about a king whose people had grown soft and entitled. Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, he hoped to teach them a lesson. His...
(Extracted from Types of ego by Nithyananda) The active ego is easy to recognize. People with an active ego will behave in a highhanded fashion; they will claim selfimportance openly. They will be arrogant. This ego is...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) We are all faced with this same challenge in the pursuit of our own goals: Will we work hard for something that can be taken away from us? Will we invest time...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to deal with. Our humiliations will pale in...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) The famous epigrammist Martial fulfilled this role for many years, serving for a time under the patron Mela, a wealthy businessman and brother of the Stoic...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) Passion is seen in those who can tell you in great detail who they intend to become and what their success will be like—they might even be able to tell you...
Ideas are cheap. Execution matters. I have plenty of ideas but I can only execute one at any one time. There’s a recent development that made me revisit one of the ideas I had in the past. The idea was to create a...
I keep falling into the trap of building a business based on what the customers need, instead of just giving them what they want. It is the morality that I hold upon myself – I believe what the customers want is...
(Extracted from Fat, Happy, And In Over Your Head by Morgan Housel) Marcel Hirscher is the greatest ski racer in history, winning the World Cup Overall title in each of the last eight years. Few of you have heard of...
