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The Obstacle Is the Way
The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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18min listening time
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In his book, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, author Ryan Holiday encourages his readers to see obstacles and impediments in a new way. Instead of seeing them as roadblocks or insurmountable problems, he wants his readers to draw on the experience that history provides and realize that it is not despite obstacles that people succeed but rather because of obstacles that they succeed. He looks at historical figures as diverse as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Laura Ingalls Wilder as well as those from as far back as ancient Athens and as modern as President Barack Obama to show how people from all areas of life and through the ages have been able to face obstacles and use them to propel them forward. For Holiday, “the obstacle is the way.”
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