The Obstacle Is The Way
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Life will throw tremendous hurdles at you, but don’t think that the world owes you anything.
The sooner I realized that, the better I’ve been at coping with the trials and tribulations thrown at me.
Many people complain about how things are and feel entitled to something better, but they are not willing to do the work.
Will Durant said, “A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean."
A great nation is born from people who are willing to put in the hard work.
Instead of only looking at luxuries, you have to learn to love the grind.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hello everybody. Welcome to today's book of the day. I am here with |
| 0:05.6 | very special guest Ryan Holiday. We're talking about this book. The obstacle is |
| 0:10.2 | the way. So each person you and I, Ryan, your life I guarantee you will be full of |
| 0:17.7 | obstacles. The great Charlie Manger says, you know, the the self-made billionaire |
| 0:22.5 | says life will throw tremendous hurdles at you. It will throw, you know, the |
| 0:26.7 | death of loved ones, the loss of business, the betrayal of friends, the |
| 0:30.3 | betrayal of business partners, and the difference is some people are |
| 0:36.0 | entitled and they think that the world owes them. The world doesn't know you |
| 0:40.4 | anything, you know, the world. The sooner I realize that, the better I've been |
| 0:45.1 | able to cope with the the trials and tribulations that life throws at me. Not |
| 0:49.9 | perfect at doing it, but this book is an amazing book. And whenever I see a book |
| 0:53.8 | that's on this subject, I think, oh, it's just going to be cliche. And I have to say |
| 0:58.8 | Ryan, this is a good book. And people know me know that I don't always give |
| 1:04.0 | I don't give easy compliments. People work for me really know that. But I do call |
| 1:08.5 | the spade a spade. And this is a good book. So welcome to today's show for those of |
| 1:14.5 | you make sure you buy this book. It's short and sweet and to the point. So Ryan, |
| 1:19.6 | thanks for being on today's show. Thank you. That's very fun. Yeah. It's a |
| 1:25.7 | subtitle, the timeless art of turning trials into triumph. And I know you write |
| 1:32.5 | good books. I've read your other stuff. And when I saw that you wrote, you know, |
| 1:35.9 | you're known as marketing genius, one of the leaders in terms of understanding |
| 1:43.1 | brands. You led the campaign for American apparel, which has obviously turned |
| 1:47.6 | into this monster, fashion brand. And so when I saw you writing a book on, you |
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