Cy Wakeman (@cywakeman) is the founder of Reality Based Leadership. She wrote a book called No Ego.
No Ego is a leadership book, which is an unusual read for me since I'm a solopreneur, but I couldn't put it down. You might hear me talk about ego from time to time. I think my conversation with Ryan Holiday back on episode 31 was the first time I was really thinking about ego. He wrote the book Ego is the Enemy.
Since then I've come to realize that ego is the number one enemy that can hold you back from reaching your creative potential. Your ego will keep you from being accountable to yourself and what you want to accomplish. It will direct your attention outside of you, and cause you to blame others. It will cause you to make limiting excuses for yourself.
But if you're able to bypass your own ego, something magical happens. You start to concentrate on what you can control. You start to see a connection between your actions and the results you get.
This is what I loved so much about Cy's book, No Ego. It's a powerful book for keeping ego from ruining your workplace, but at the same time it's a powerful book for keeping ego from ruining yourself and sabotaging your own potential.
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102. Use the Seven Mental States to Optimize Your Creative Output
101. Pat Flynn: Teach While You Learn
100. Find Your Calling. (SPECIAL 100th episode!! Featuring James Altucher, Dan Ariely, Jason Fried, Seth Godin, & more)
99. Michelangelo's Creative Process. Ross King, author of The Pope's Ceiling
98. Find Your Creative City
97. A Tale of Two Bootstrappers. Rob Hunter of Focused Apps & David Kadavy
96. Mini-life case study: One couple, 6 months in Medellín
95. Be Productively Curious. Ian Leslie, author of "Curious: The Desire to Know, and Why Your Future Depends On It"
94. In Ten Years, Will You be Glad?
93. Art is Your Job. Creator of NBC's The Blacklist, Jon Bokenkamp, on screenwriting
92. Listen to "The Voice"
91. Emmy-award winning set designer for Bill Nye, Martha Stewart, & Snoop Dogg, James Pearse Connelly
90. Success Favors Those Who Ship
89. Lead minds, not hands. L. David Marquet, author of Turn The Ship Around
88. Design Internship advice to a Millennial
87. Cab driver, neuroscientist, PBS Frontline producer, conceptual artist, & Minutiae app co-founder, Daniel J. Wilson
86. Choose your weapon to boost creative output
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84. Yes, you can multitask creative work.
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