Book Byte #218 "The Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

“We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.”

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

“Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”

“If an emotion can't change the condition or the situation you're dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one. But it's what I feel. Right, no one said anything about not feeling it. No one said you can't ever cry. Forget "manliness." If you need to take a moment, by all means, go ahead. Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one's emotions, not in pretending they don't exist.”

“Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”

“Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and herever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.”

“For all species other than us humans, things just are what they are. Our problem is that we’re always trying to figure out what things mean—why things are the way they are. As though the why matters. Emerson put it best: “We cannot spend the day in explanation.” Don’t waste time on false constructs.”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea

The three components of transforming challenges into opportunity and adversity into advantage are perception, action, and will. You can turn life's obstacles into the fuel that propels your success by using these steps: seeing obstacles objectively, realizing your power, and changing your perspective; acting with diligence and discipline, believing in the process; and using your will to persevere through all hardships.

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