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Book: The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
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  1. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. - CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    Samuel Zemurray.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    We are prepared for failure and ready for success.
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    As the Haitian proverb puts it: Behind mountains are more mountains. Elysium is a myth. One does not overcome an obstacle to enter the land of no obstacles. On the contrary, the more you accomplish, the more things will stand in your way. There are always more obstacles, bigger challenges. You're always fighting uphill. Get used to it and train accordingly. Knowing that life is a marathon and not a sprint is important. Conserve your energy. Understand that each battle is only one of many and that you can use it to make the next one easier. More important, you must keep them all in real perspective. Passing one obstacle simply says you're worthy of more. The world seems to keep throwing them at you once it knows you can take it. Which is good, because we get better with every attempt.
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    You know you're not the only one who has to accept things you don't necessarily like, right? It's part of the human condition. If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that some intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We can't argue or yell this problem away. We simply accept it. That is not to say we allow it to prevent us from reaching our ultimate destination. But it does change the way we travel to get there and the duration of the trip.
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    Only in struggling with the impediments that made others quit can we find ourselves on untrodden territory-only by persisting and resisting can we learn what others were too impatient to be taught.
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    Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others.
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    take the trouble you're dealing with and use it as an opportunity to focus on the present moment.
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  9. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    For instance, in the design stages for a new mouse for an early Apple product, Jobs had high expectations. He wanted it to move fluidly in any direction-a new development for any mouse at that time-but a lead engineer was told by one of his designers that this would be commercially impossible. What Jobs wanted wasn't realistic and wouldn't work. The next day, the lead engineer arrived at work to find that Steve Jobs had fired the employee who'd said that. When the replacement came in, his first words were: "I can build the mouse.
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  10. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle is the Way: The

    Certain things in life will cut you open like a knife. When that happens-at that exposing moment-the world gets a glimpse of what's truly inside you. So what will be revealed when you're sliced open by tension and pressure? Iron? Or air? Or bullshit?
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