The Obstacle Is the Way

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By Ryan Holiday

A modern reading of Stoic philosophy built on one line from Marcus Aurelius: the impediment to action advances action, and what stands in the way becomes the way.

Holiday works through it in three parts — perception, action, will — with examples from Rockefeller, Amelia Earhart, Ulysses Grant and others, arguing that the obstacle is not something to get past but the material you are given to work with.

First published 2014