The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

What blocks the path becomes the path, turned into a practical method with historical examples.

Holiday’s first Stoic book takes one idea from Marcus Aurelius — that what blocks the path becomes the path — and builds a practical method around it: perception, action, will. The examples run from Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart, and the book’s popularity with athletes and military readers says something about what it is actually for.

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