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Focus on that which is within your control, not what is not.Breaking something apart causes it to lose its power over you.Learning to perceive things as they are is a learned skill requiring repetition.When someone intimidates you, picture them having sex-grunting, groaning, and awkward in private-just like the rest of us.“The observing eye sees simply what is there.”.Learn to control your emotions, or as Nassim Taleb puts it, “domestication” of feelings.Apatheia: Greek word for “calm equanimity.”.Events are objective until we assign meaning through story-making.“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” - William Shakespeare.Perception of obstacles is more important than the obstacles themselves.Rockefeller called this “the school of adversity and stress.” Remaining resilient, adaptable, and calm when confronted with obstacles is learned behavior.Framework for transforming obstacles into strengths: perception, action, and will.

“The things which hurt, instruct.” - Benjamin Franklin.Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” “The obstacle in the path becomes the path.Common obstacles: mental, physical, emotional, and perceived.“Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”.Blaming others is easy, but the only thing we can control is our attitude.Facing obstacles, we experience similar feelings: fear, frustration, confusion, helplessness, depression, and anger.

Challenges help us build skills and resilience, called “adversarial growth.”.

Whatever obstacles stand in our way, we have a choice: be blocked or move through them.

Is there a formula for thriving not despite whatever happens but because of it?.

My notes are casual and include what I believe are the essential concepts, ideas, and insights from the book, along with direct quotes from the author. Here are my notes and quotes on The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday. Instead, they live by the maxim: ‘What stands in the way becomes the way.’ They learn to turn obstacles to their advantage by managing perceptions and directing actions toward the things they can change. Successful people aren’t exceptionally lucky, talented, or experienced.