{"id":16240,"date":"2022-07-25T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:55:47","slug":"a-book-recommendation-ego-is-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/2022\/07\/25\/a-book-recommendation-ego-is-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"A book recommendation &#8211; Ego is the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ego Is the Enemy - Motivational Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VqNctMt8BUo?feature=oembed\" style=\"border: none\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>By Eddie Pinero &#8211; a fun intersection and realization a few months after I first found this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I share the compilation of quotes above from a solid book I find worth reading. <a href=\"http:\/\/egoistheenemy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ego is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday<\/a>. It reminded me to turn within and persistently see to improve so that I can be there with empathy and courage for my wife and immediate family, then other circles of influence. I&#8217;d recommend reading &#8220;Obstacle is The Way&#8221; and &#8220;Stillness is the Key&#8221; first, but there is a lot of noise again in varying echo chambers I find reaching my ears.  I blogged about it here a while back <a href=\"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/2021-april-06-ego-is-the-enemy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(click here).<\/a>  This was important enough for me to get just this out like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ego is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday narrated promo clip by Eddie Pinero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[444,446],"tags":[825,826,827,828,835,836,838],"class_list":["post-16240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-video-external","tag-tag-agency","tag-tag-discernment","tag-tag-autonomy","tag-tag-reflections","tag-tag-triathlon","tag-tag-endurance","tag-tag-tn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24350,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions\/24350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyinthehills.com\/zentriathlete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}