[Books] Ego Is the Enemy
Why do I read this book? 有件事情很讽刺：张一鸣在诸多不利因素的环境下创建了比肩甚至超越Meta的公司，却非常的谦逊低调；我啥也还没achieve，ego却非常大。我最近意识到，我的ego是隐藏在我人生诸多失败之下的重要因素，还会阻碍我取得更大的成功，我想fix一下这个问题，所以找了这本书来读。 出自于本能，人本身就有自恋倾向，现代社会放大了这一点（网上各种自恋狂），而湾区的自恋狂浓度更甚，在这样的大环境、小环境下，导致我大大的ego并没有那么突兀，所以到现在才意识到这个问题。 “for people with ambitions, talents, drives, and potential to fulfill, ego comes with the territory. Precisely what makes us so promising as thinkers, doers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, what drives us to the top of those fields, makes us vulnerable to this darker side of the psyche.” 越是有野心、有才华、有能力、甚至是有成就的人，就越容易有ego。你看有多少曾经风光无限的人因为ego下场很惨。 “The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.” Ego就是：对自我在社会中的认知与客观事实不符 If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. One of the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous defined ego as...