Ego Is the Enemy



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Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

FIGHT CLUB MOMENTS
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such
explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
—EM ILE ZOLA
here is hardly the space to list all the successful people who have hit
rock bottom.
The notion everyone experiences jarring, perspective-altering moments is
almost a cliché. That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
J. K. Rowling finds herself seven years after college with a failed
marriage, no job, single parent, kids she can barely feed, and approaching
homelessness. A teenage Charlie Parker thinks he is tearing it up on stage,
right in the pocket with the rest of the crew, until Jo Jones throws a cymbal at
him and chases him away in humiliation. A young Lyndon Johnson is beaten
to a pulp by a Hill Country farm boy over a girl, finally shattering his picture
of himself as “cock of the walk.”
There are many ways to hit bottom. Almost everyone does in their own
way, at some point.
In the novel Fight Club, the character Jack’s apartment is blown up. All
of his possessions—“every stick of furniture,” which he pathetically loved—
were lost. Later it turns out that Jack blew it up himself. He had multiple
personalities, and “Tyler Durden” orchestrated the explosion to shock Jack
from the sad stupor he was afraid to do anything about. The result was a
journey into an entirely different and rather dark part of his life.
In Greek mythology, characters often experience katabasis—or “a going
down.” They’re forced to retreat, they experience a depression, or in some
cases literally descend into the underworld. When they emerge, it’s with
heightened knowledge and understanding.


Today, we’d call that hell—and on occasion we all spend some time
there.
We surround ourselves with bullshit. With distractions. With lies about
what makes us happy and what’s important. We become people we shouldn’t
become and engage in destructive, awful behaviors. This unhealthy and ego-
derived state hardens and becomes almost permanent. Until katabasis forces
us to face it.
Duris dura franguntur. Hard things are broken by hard things.
The bigger the ego the harder the fall.
It would be nice if it didn’t have to be that way. If we could nicely be
nudged to correct our ways, if a quiet admonishment was what it took to shoo
away illusions, if we could manage to circumvent ego on our own. But it is
just not so. The Reverend William A. Sutton observed some 120 years ago
that “we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations.” How much
better it would be to spare ourselves these experiences, but sometimes it’s
the only way the blind can be made to see.
In fact, many significant life changes come from moments in which we are
thoroughly demolished, in which everything we thought we knew about the
world is rendered false. We might call these “Fight Club moments.”
Sometimes they are self-inflicted, sometimes inflicted on us, but whatever the
cause they can be catalysts for changes we were petrified to make.
Pick a time in your life (or perhaps it’s a moment you’re experiencing
now). A boss’s eviscerating critique of you in front of the entire staff. That
sit-down with the person you loved. The Google Alert that delivered the
article you’d hoped would never be written. The call from the creditor. The
news that threw you back in your chair, speechless and dumbfounded.
It was in those moments—when the break exposes something unseen
before—that you were forced to make eye contact with a thing called Truth.
No longer could you hide or pretend.
Such a moment raises many questions: How do I make sense of this? How

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