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“I want Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, but make it an airport book for tech bros”
This is how I imagine a publisher would commission a book like The Obstacle is the Way. I’m being a bit harsh, it’s actually not really a bad introduction to Stoic philosophy. However, it’s chunked into short platitudinous chapters and questionably researched case studies of famous successful people throughout history that all apparently turned obstacles into the “way”. Also chock-full of short, snappy aphorisms just begging to be posted to LinkedIn superimposed over some mountains.
Holiday even admits it himself, right there in the first chapter - you’d do better just reading Aurelius directly
This is how I imagine a publisher would commission a book like The Obstacle is the Way. I’m being a bit harsh, it’s actually not really a bad introduction to Stoic philosophy. However, it’s chunked into short platitudinous chapters and questionably researched case studies of famous successful people throughout history that all apparently turned obstacles into the “way”. Also chock-full of short, snappy aphorisms just begging to be posted to LinkedIn superimposed over some mountains.
Holiday even admits it himself, right there in the first chapter - you’d do better just reading Aurelius directly