The obstacle is the way - Ryan Holliday
Summary
- Everyone faces downs in life. How are we going to deal with it? learn from it? or just repeat the same mistakes each time?
How I discovered it
- Recommendation from a friend. Also, I have read Ego is the enemy - Ryan Holiday and I really enjoyed it and learned from it.
How the book changed me
- Coming at a time in my life when I am facing many obstacles, it has helped me focus on the postiive and in learning the lessons i need to learn from my personal obstacles.
Details
- Premortem - try to anticipate what could go wrong
- Appreciate unexpected blessings and accept unexpected costs
- Thomas Edison factory burns down and his positive reaction
- Any obstacle or set back should always be viewed as an opportunity
References
Quotes
- Nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation - Seneca
- Expectations of youth - Emerson
- Behind mountains there are other mountains - Haitian proverb
- What stands in the way becomes the way - Marcus Aurelius