What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan Holliday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I'm going to read you a quote here.

Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. That is not a quote from Ego is the enemy, although it is a book I read while I was writing Ego is the enemy, because that was a a a weird book, right? I'm I'm trying to look not at people who have succeeded, but where people have failed, where they've gotten into trouble, what causes those troubles. And as it happens, most of our wounds are self-inflicted.

Most collapses come from within, not from without. That quote is actually the back cover of a really good, very well known book called How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In. This is from Jim Collins, who wrote good to great as well. I read How the Mighty Fall when I was researching ego is the enemy, as I said.

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