Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities with Ryan Holiday
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday dropped out of college to spend his early 20’s working for masters of their craft like Robert Greene and Tucker Max. A conversation at a conference turned him on to the world of stoic philosophy and led to the publication of his most recent book The Obstacle is the Way
- Building a capacity for making terrifying decisions
- Recognizing pivotal moments in our own lives
- How we deal with difficult moments in our lives
- Learning to control our perceptions
- Making the best out of terrible situations
- Why our view of people’s lives is flattering
- The 3 foundations of stoicism: perception, action and will
- Why limiting our exposure to difficult situations limits our capabilities
- The relative nature of adversity
- Why there is no life that is free of suffering
Resources
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. You can follow him on twitter @ryanholiday
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