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The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward

Built on a line from Marcus Aurelius: what stands in the way becomes the way. Holiday runs through perception, action and will, with historical cases from Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart carrying each one. Sports teams found it before general readers did.

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