The Obstacle Is the Way

Posted on 09 November 2018 by Ryan Holiday

The impediment to action advances action What stands in the way becomes the way Marcus AureliusWe are stuck, stymied, frustrated But it needn t be this way There is a formula for success that s been followed by the icons of history from John D Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S Grant to Steve Jobs a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.These men and women were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted Their success came from timeless philosophical principles laid down by a Roman emperor who struggled to articulate a method for excellence in any and all situations.This book reveals that formula for the first time and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into advantage. Free Read The Obstacle Is the Way [ by ] Ryan Holiday [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Great advice, everyone overcome adversity Just do it For example, if you have a contract from Penguin to write a self help book but you have absolutely nothing to say, don t fret This is an opportunity You interned for a guy who wrote an anecdote based guide to being powerful There s no need to reinvent the wheel Lay down that same track.Aside from some of the facts within the actual anecdotes on which I don t trust he s done appropriate research since each of them are presented perfuncto Great advice, everyone overcome adversity Just do it For example, if you have a contract from Penguin to write a self help book but you have absolutely nothing to say, don t fret This is an opportunity You interned for a guy who wrote an anecdote based guide to being powerful There s no need to reinvent the wheel Lay down that same track.Aside from some of the facts within the actual anecdotes on which I don t trust he s done appropriate research since each of them are presented perfunctorily and exclusively to evince his successful people habits and no...This isn t muchthan a superficial repackaging of stoicism combined with some semi interesting anecdotes and a whole lot of trite motivational affirmations The book is written in the style of Holiday s mentor, Robert Greene, but where Greene does something rare and surprising by compensating for his lack of personal experience with deep and compelling research, The Obstacle is the Way falls flat The anecdotes are common and superficial and their ties to Stoicism feel tenuous at best Then This isn t muchthan a superficial repackaging of stoicism combined with some semi interesting anecdotes and a whole lot of trite motivational affirmations The book is written in the style of Holiday s mentor, Rober...About as useful as starting with a list of amputees, picking out only the successful ones, getting their stories, and then writing a book called Having a Limb Chopped Off is the Way.This is an intelligent self help book packed with examples from history of people who made it through adversity into greatness It also offers a system for approaching life as aaverage person, turning obstacles into advantages, and using relentless persistence to achieve what you want We all face obstacles in our lives, what matters is how we perceive them and work with them to move on When we aim high, pressure and stress obligingly come along for the ride, so we have to find ways of This is an intelligent self help book packed with examples from history of people who made it through adversity into greatness It also offers a system for approa...I don t know Ryan Holiday, but I heard of this book from Tim Ferriss and was intrigued by the description so I decided to dose myself in some stoicism Dynamite book I m glad I put the time in Holiday covers the topic well in a very accessible way.This book was a fucking obstacle Now I can share the way Don t bother.Early in the book Holiday writes, This is not a book of gushing, hazy optimism There will be no folksy saying or cute but utterly ineffectual proverbs He is partially right There aren t many folksy sayings, but the next 200 pages features a mixture of ineffectual proverbs and utterly incomplete historical rehashes Holiday is an accomplished thinker and writer, but this book wi...Maybe I got into it with too much background of the author.Knowing and linking much of the Tim Ferris stuff I had read the blog post of How to do a bestseller which this applies without shame That in itself would be no bad thing The bad thing for me starts when there is no depth in this book It is like having heard a good quote and repeating it over and over and over again.I like the author and I like stoism But there is so muchthan It is not important what life throws at you, you s Maybe I got into it with too much background of the author.Knowing and linking much of the Tim Ferris stuff I had read the blog post of How to do a bestseller which this applies without sh...Found this after googling The Process during a highly caffeinated Sixers related research session one day The Process refers to Sixers GM Sam Hinkie s plan to pull the team out of mediocrity by clearing cap space, developing unheralded young players, establishing a hardworking, fun, trusting culture environment, and accumulating draft picks by trading current established veterans and MCW, the previous season s Rookie of the Year for future picks, using aforementioned cap space to absorb ove Found this after googling The Process during a highly caffeinated Sixers related research session one day The Process refers to Sixers GM Sam Hinkie s plan to pull the team out of mediocrity by clearing cap space, developing unheralded young players, establishing a hardworking, fun, trusting culture environment, and accumulating draft picks by trading current established veterans and MCW, the previous season s Rookie of the Year for future picks, using aforementioned cap space to absorb overpaid underperforming veterans plus picks in exchange for helping teams bail out from bad contacts ...The Obstacle is the Way digs into how knowledge and reason are in fact the highest good, as well as how to stay indifferent to pleasure and pain and how to respond to the vicissitudes of fortune objectively The key is to not let your emotions color your perception of the world.Ryan not only provides a great review of stoicism, he does an excellent job at articulating exactly how this school of thought can be applied to any problems that you might be facing now as you try to advance your career The Obstacle is the Way digs into how knowledge and reason are in fact the highest good, as well as how to stay indifferent to pleasure and pain and how to respond to the vicissitudes of fortune objectively The key is to not let your emotions color your perception of the world.Ryan not only provides a great review of stoicism, he does an excellent job at articulating exactly how this school of thought can be applied to any problems that you might be facing now as you try to advance your career or transition from academia into a new career ...

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09 November 2018

Ryan Holiday