Having an inflated ego can harm your career by reducing your connection to others and stunting your ability to maintain relationships, writes Ryan Holiday. “Confidence is based on what is real — it is earned,” Holiday writes. “Ego is based on delusion and wishful thinking — it is artifice.”
Source: 99U, June 2016.
The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential—and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn.