The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage

by Ryan Holiday

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

And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.

A mistake becomes training.

If an emotion can’t change the condition or the situation you’re dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.

is: Take the bat off your shoulder and give it a swing.

today. While overpaid CEO’s take long vacations and hide behind e-mail autoresponders, some programmer is working eighteen-hour days coding the start-up that will destroy that CEO’s business.

Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles.

The one way to guarantee we don’t benefit from failure—to ensure it is a bad thing—is to not learn from it.

To be great at something takes practice. Obstacles and adversity are no different.

name: premeditatio malorum (premeditation of evils).