A review by elizabacelar
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday

5.0

This was my first Ryan Holiday book and I'm glad it was. I knew about him before and I was excited to dive into it and had high expectations, and this book surpassed it. In the first half of this book, I kept getting this thought of "how come there's a book with this much knowledge on it and there are so many people that don't know about it? what took me so long?". It's deep, it will definetely take at least a couple more re-reads for me to get a glance at the full spectrum of its true meaning. And as Ryan says, it is indeed simple, and again yet so profound. The title now makes complete sense: obstacles of life are the way life is composed, and they are it, and it is only - and only through them that we can truly live a meaningful life. Once I got it, I started taking a whole new look in life. Absolutely loved it!