1: The year was 1915. Deep in the jungles of Central America, two rival American fruit companies urgently wanted to acquire the same five thousand…
1: During the first part of World War II, the worst assignment for British troops was being sent to fight in North Africa. “Methodical and…
1: It was 1974. Major League pitcher Tommy John blew out his arm. He damaged the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Permanently. They…
“At 150 miles above Earth in a spaceship smaller than a VW,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle Is the Way, panic “is death. Panic…
“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.” -Teddy Roosevelt 1: Ulysses S.…
The king believed his people had grown soft and entitled. He decided to teach them a lesson. 1: “His plan was simple: He would place…
“A deer’s brain tells it to run because things are bad,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle is the Way.  “It runs. Sometimes, right into…
1: The German Blitzkrieg (translation: lightning war) was one of the most menacing and terrifying developments in modern warfare. Having lost World War I in…
1: “This issue. This obstacle—this frustrating, unfortunate, problematic, unexpected problem preventing [us] from doing what [we] want to do,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle…
1: The year was 170 A.D. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, sat down to write. Perhaps it was “at night in his…