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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

    Our generation needs an approach for overcoming obstacles and thriving amid chaos more than ever. One that will help turn our problems on their heads, using them as canvases on which to paint master works.
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    In our own lives, how many problems seem to come from applying judgments to things we don't control, as though there were a way they were supposed to be? How often do we see what we think is there or should be there, instead of what actually is there?
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Don't let the negativity in, don't let those emotions even get started. Just say: No, thank you. I can't afford to panic. This is the skill that must be cultivated-freedom from disturbance and perturbation-so you can focus your energy exclusively on solving problems, rather than reacting to them.
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Thus, the question for astronauts was not How skilled a pilot are you, but Can you keep an even strain? Can you fight the urge to panic and instead focus only on what you can change? On the task at hand? Life is really no different. Obstacles make us emotional, but the only way we'll survive or overcome them is by keeping those emotions in check-if we can keep steady no matter what happens, no matter how much external events may fluctuate.
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Welcome to the source of most of our problems down here on Earth. Everything is planned down to the letter, then something goes wrong and the first thing we do is trade in our plan for a good ol' emotional freak-out. Some of us almost crave sounding the alarm, because it's easier than dealing with whatever is staring us in the face.
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  7. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    If your nerve holds, then nothing really did "happen"-our perception made sure it was nothing of consequence.
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  8. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Shaking off the bad stuff as it happens and soldiering on-staring straight ahead as though nothing has happened.
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  9. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    There is always a countermove, always an escape or a way through, so there is no reason to get worked up. No one said it would be easy and, of course, the stakes are high, but the path is there for those ready to take it.
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  10. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive. "Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," as Shakespeare put it.
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  11. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist-think of the cold sweat when you're stressed about money, or the fight-or-flight response that kicks in when your boss yells at you. Our safety is not truly at risk here-there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out-though it certainly feels that way sometimes."
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  12. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    To perceive what others see as negative, as something to be approached rationally, clearly, and, most important, as an opportunity-not as something to fear or bemoan.
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