MBA464 Must Read: The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
The $100 MBA Show
Omar Zenhom
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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