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Book: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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  1. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    We might not be emperors, but the world is still constantly testing us. It asks: Are you worthy? Can you get past the things that inevitably fall in your way? Will you stand up and show us what you're made of?Plenty of people have answered this question in the affirmative. And a rarer breed still has shown that they not only have what it takes, but they thrive and rally at every such challenge. That the challenge makes them better than if they'd never faced the adversity at all.
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  2. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds - that sacred place of reason, action and will - and throw off our compass.
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  3. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    In the chaos of sport, as in life, process provides us a way.It says: Okay, you've got to do something very difficult. Don't focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow the process and not the prize.The road to back-to-back championships is just that, a road. And you travel along a road in steps. Excellence is a matter of steps. Excelling at this one, then that one, and then the one after that. Saban's process is exclusively this-existing in the present, taking it one step at a time, not getting distracted by anything else. Not the other team, not the scoreboard or the crowd.The process is about finishing. Finishing games. Finishing workouts. Finishing film sessions. Finishing drives. Finishing reps. Finishing plays. Finishing blocks. Finishing the smallest task you have right in front of you and finishing it well.Whether it's pursuing the pinnacle of success in your field or simply surviving some awful or trying ordeal, the same approach works. Don't think about the end-think about surviving. Making it from meal to meal, break to break, checkpoint to checkpoint, paycheck to paycheck, one day at a time.And when you really get it right, even the hardest things become manageable. Because the process is relaxing. Under its influence, we needn't panic. Even mammoth tasks become just a series of component parts.
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Great times are great softeners
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  5. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    A man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able-always remembering the results will be infinitesimal-and to attend to his own soul.
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  6. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    If something is in our control, its worth every ounce of our efforts and energy. Death is not one of those things. It is not in our control how long we'll live or what will come and take us from life. But thinking about mortality creates real perspective, and urgency. It doesn't need to be depressing. Because its invigorating.
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  7. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat.
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    It doesn't matter whether this is the worst time to be alive or the best, whether you're in a good job market or a bad one, or that the obstacle you facie is intimidating or burdensome. What matters right now is right now.
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  9. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".
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  10. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.
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  11. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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  12. Ryan Holiday _ The Obstacle Is the Way: The

    The implications of our obstacle are theoretical -- they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move. You can take the trouble you're dealing with and use it as an opportunity to focus on the present moment. To ignore the totality of your situation and learn to be content with what happens, as it happens. To have no "way" that the future needs to be to confirm your predictions, because you didn't make any. To let each new moment be a refresh wiping clear what came before and what others were hoping would come next.
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