Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,811. I was recently reading the Daily Stoic email and Ryan Holiday has one titled, Your Weak Can Be Your Strength. And he goes on the right that a new HBO documentary on Tony Hawk

talks about how early pool and vert skaters needed a certain amount of strength to yank the board

up and out of the ramp to get air for a trick. Now Tony Hawk was a skinny little kid and he did

not have the strength to do this trick.

And it seemed at first like a disadvantage until the moment that it drove him to innovate a new move called allying.

Now, those of you who have skateboarded or are familiar with the term, maybe if you've never skateboarded in your life, you know what the term

ollieing means. And he had to ollie as he wrote up the lip and thus changed skateboarding forever.

And Ryan Holliday goes on to say that this is a classic example of Marcus Aurelius and when he said

how the impediment to action advances action.

What stood in a way was Hawke's inability to perform a certain task physically.

And it became a new way.

He ended up figuring it out.

A new way in which his mind and creativity and courage was able to create something from nothing,

close quote. This caused me to think about those times in your life where you just can't do something

for some reason, whether it be your build different or your circumstances are different or you can't do something or

you don't have enough time you don't have enough money you don't have enough space you don't have

enough resources so what do you do you apply marcus aurelius's advice where the impediment to action

advances action you find a. You find a way.

You find a way to figure it out.

And that might be developing a new skill,

developing a new way,

developing a new system to help you get to the same destination,

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