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931 reviews for:
The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday
3.86 AVERAGE
931 reviews for:
The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday
3.86 AVERAGE
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Contradicts itself a lot
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
My new job is 100% obstacles so this was a serviceable, if unremarkable, refresher on the mental toughness and creativity needed to deal with that.
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I enjoy Ryan Holiday's writing. I think he does a great job comparing past to current-day obstacles. It's a good read for those new to stoicism and working on mindset.
"What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. ‘How does it come, then?’ As God wills." - Epictetus
"You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone. To have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, as a young person, to be heroic" - Henry Rollins
Ryan Holiday navigates literature and historical quotes to build our Stoic operating system. Leaning heavily into Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, Holiday shares the wisdom of great will and forbearance. "Sustine et abstine" - words that can guide you a lifetime.
Although it goes through a myriad of stories the focus is on exploring our inner citadel and exercising of virtue toward goodness. Some of the stories are particularly moving, especially the tennis great Arthur Ashe and his masterful control against racial injustice in the sport. Similarly, the "great opener", Toussaint Louverture, and the description of endless innovative war strategies against unremitting defeat is so great.
Inspiring read, and it certainly fanned the flames of my own passions and stoked my imagination of the future i am attempting to create. Staring into a second semester of a graduate program. Building an amazing relationship with my girlfriend and imagining what a family could bring. Pushing myself into acting classes that test my patience, rigidness and openness. May we never be complacent, resigned or broken. And should we be, let us use that as our starting build to rebuild.
"You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone. To have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, as a young person, to be heroic" - Henry Rollins
Ryan Holiday navigates literature and historical quotes to build our Stoic operating system. Leaning heavily into Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, Holiday shares the wisdom of great will and forbearance. "Sustine et abstine" - words that can guide you a lifetime.
Although it goes through a myriad of stories the focus is on exploring our inner citadel and exercising of virtue toward goodness. Some of the stories are particularly moving, especially the tennis great Arthur Ashe and his masterful control against racial injustice in the sport. Similarly, the "great opener", Toussaint Louverture, and the description of endless innovative war strategies against unremitting defeat is so great.
Inspiring read, and it certainly fanned the flames of my own passions and stoked my imagination of the future i am attempting to create. Staring into a second semester of a graduate program. Building an amazing relationship with my girlfriend and imagining what a family could bring. Pushing myself into acting classes that test my patience, rigidness and openness. May we never be complacent, resigned or broken. And should we be, let us use that as our starting build to rebuild.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced