The Obstacle is the Way
A book by Ryan Holiday about using Stoic philosophy to turn obstacles into opportunities for growth and success.
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The Art of Resilience
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endurance athlete's resilience book
Chris read both during injury recovery. Both deal with bouncing back from hardship.
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Chris read both during injury recovery. Both deal with bouncing back from hardship.
"I read The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday. All of these were suggested by friends who'd been through other horrendous injuries and come back from it."
Read alongside The Art of Resilience and the Resurfaced documentary during Achilles recovery
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"I read The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday. All of these were suggested by friends who'd been through other horrendous injuries and come back from it."
More from Chris Williamson →"I've been big into stoicism, reading stoic philosophy the last few years, and you know Ryan Holiday wrote the book The Obstacle Is the Way, which Marcus Aurelius talked about, and learning to approach obstacles as opportunities instead of problems..."
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"The Obstacle Is the Way came because I wrote down this passage in Meditations and I thought, oh, there's something here, and then many years later that became that book."
More from Ryan Holiday →+7 more mentions from Ryan
"I'd already written The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy."
"The obstacle is the way. If you are only able to handle circumstances going your way, you're not going to go very far."
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