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The $100 MBA Show

MBA464 Must Read: The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We face challenges every single day. How do we tackle these obstacles head on and come out as a better person and entrepreneur? Not to worry because today, we're going to share with you a book we've recently read- The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. This book is not only very well-written, it will also show us how we can turn our own adversities into advantages. This book doesn't fluff around so if you wanna hear about why you must read it, hit play!

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the 100 R. M. A show, the business podcast R.M.B. Show, the Business Podcast, that's Noble, just full of business advice, strategies, and

0:17.3

lessons every single day with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar

0:25.2

Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business

0:30.1

training, and community online. And today's episode is a must-read episode where I share

0:35.8

with you a book that has greatly influenced me, has greatly impacted me as an entrepreneur.

0:40.3

I share with you some of its insights as well as let you know why you should read it and

0:45.5

how it's applicable to you as an entrepreneur.

0:48.4

Today's must read is The Obsticle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. This is the first book I've read from Ryan Holiday and I've read it quite recently.

0:57.0

But after I read the first chapter of The Obstacles Away, I looked up all his books on Amazon and ordered them on Kindle.

1:05.0

He's just a really good writer, and his content is so on point.

1:09.0

He doesn't fluff around, he gets straight to the point, he explains exactly what he's going to be

1:13.0

teaching you in the book and then he actually goes ahead and teaches you. The

1:16.8

obstacle is the way it's not just rhetoric it actually gives you a game plan

1:20.2

actually tells you how to deal with challenges.

1:23.4

And it's not so much what happens is about what you make of it when it happens.

1:28.0

How do you take an obstacle?

1:29.0

How do you take something that seems impossible that's in front of you, that's keeping you from your goal and take that

1:34.2

challenge head on and come out of it a better person and a better entrepreneur.

1:39.0

We're all going to be faced with challenges in our businesses. We're all going to be faced

1:42.4

with challenges as our businesses. We're all going to be faced with challenges

1:42.9

as an entrepreneur. I'm facing challenges every single day and you should be too if

1:48.0

you're building a business that's challenging. And this book is timeless. I'm going to get into all the great takeaways, some of the things I really, really

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