“The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.”

Over 10,000 readers have highlighted that passage in the Kindle edition of Ego is the Enemy.

The reason it resonates is that the Stoics have been riffing on that very idea for thousands of years.

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