Ego Is the Enemy in Urdu (Ana Aap ki Dushman)

Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, published in Urdu as Ana Aap ki Dushman (انا آپ کی دشمن), argues that the biggest obstacle to doing great work is usually not other people or bad luck but our own ego. The Urdu edition carries the line "apne sab se bare dushman par qabu paane ki jung", the battle to overcome your greatest enemy. It has 192 pages in the 14x21 cm size.

What the book teaches

Holiday divides the book into three parts, one for each stage of a working life:

• Aspire: when you are starting out, ego makes you talk instead of work and look for praise instead of learning. The cure is to stay a student, keep quiet about your plans and do the work.
• Success: when things go well, ego tells you that you have arrived. The book shows how pride, entitlement and the wish for control ruin people at the top, and how to stay humble and keep learning.
• Failure: when things go wrong, ego turns setbacks into blame and self-pity. Holiday shows how to accept criticism, keep working and measure yourself by your own effort.

Each chapter is built around true stories of generals, athletes, writers and business leaders, which makes the lessons easy to remember.

Who should read it

Students preparing for their careers, young professionals, people starting a business, and anyone who has achieved some success and wants to keep it. The message sits comfortably with the Islamic teaching on humility and the danger of pride (kibr).

About Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday is an American writer whose books, including The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, draw on Stoic philosophy and history. Browse books by Ryan Holiday.

Why buy from Darul Andlus

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