Thu Mar 2, 2017by Parker on TwosHad the opportunity to listen to a talk by Ryan Holiday, author of 'Ego is the Enemy' and 'The Obstacle is the Way' today at Qualcomm. Learned a lot about stoicism and the benefits of eliminating your ego19 years old, I dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of PowerNow I live on a ranch outside Austin, Texas where I do my writing and work in between raising cattle, donkeys and goats.Epictetus: “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”