The Obstacle Is The Way | The Discipline of Perception
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 14 January 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Obstacle Is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. In this episode of the podcast, Ryan reminds us to revert to the present moment by focusing on what we can control. This is how we see the opportunity within the obstacle and that results from self discipline and logic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:14.8 | something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, |
| 0:20.0 | temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:21.6 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 0:26.4 | We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:36.8 | challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more |
| 0:41.5 | space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:44.4 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, |
| 0:48.5 | to sit with your journal, |
| 0:50.0 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to a Sunday episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I think I mentioned this I'm in the middle now of |
| 1:04.9 | redoing the obstacles away. It's the 10 year anniversary. 2024 is the 10 year |
| 1:11.4 | anniversary of the obstacle |
| 1:13.4 | as a way. I don't feel like I'm old enough |
| 1:16.2 | to have a book that's 10 years old. |
| 1:18.2 | Certainly, it's even crazier that it's not even my first book |
| 1:21.2 | that's 10 years old. |
| 1:22.2 | It feels like not that long ago I was |
| 1:23.4 | writing this chapter for the first time. I remember I was writing it in a |
| 1:26.8 | Starbucks on Blaine Avenue. I think it's Blaine right?? Blaine in Iowa, there in Riverside, California. |
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