It’s not for someone who’s happy to accept handouts while not looking for work. This is not a book for those who want to blame someone else for their problems. This book will share with you their collective wisdom in order to help you accomplish the very specific and increasingly urgent goal we all share: overcoming obstacles. I admit I didn’t realize it before reading The Obstacle is the Way but both Goins and Swindoll are channeling the essence of Stoic Philosophy in these quotes.įor those unfamiliar with, but interested in, The Stoics, this book is for you because the whole point of The Obstacle is the Way is to share the teaching of the Stoics in a bit more up-to-date manner. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Sometimes the route to our purpose is a chaotic experience, and how we respond matters more than what happens. In fact, this first quote in the preface made me think again of my favourite quotes from Jeff Goins and Chuck Swindoll. You’re going to be told to look at them head on and alter your perception of them. You can tell this is not going to be some fluffy book that gets you to regress to former pains and work through them. Right in the preface of The Obstacle is the Way author Ryan Holiday sets the tone for the book. – Marcus Aurelius from The Obstacle is the Way The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. Our actions may be impeded…but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions.
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