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 large boulder in the middle of the main road, completely blocking entry into the city. He would then hide nearby and observe their reactions,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.
What would … continue reading
“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 traffic.”
1: There is a better way. We can learn to slow things down. Steady our nerves. “We can question that impulse. We can disagree with it. We can override the switch, examine the threat before we act.”
The phrase “This happened, and it … continue reading
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 a series of drawn-out trench warfare, the Germans created a new fighting strategy for World War II: They would fight with concentrated mobile divisions. “Like the tip of a spear, columns of panzer tanks rushed into Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France with devastating results … continue reading
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 is the Way.
“What if embedded inside it or inherent in it were certain benefits—benefits only for [us]?”
What would we do? What would most people do?
“Let’s be honest: Most of us are paralyzed,” Ryan writes. “Whatever our individual goals, most of us … continue reading
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 tent on the front lines of the war in Germania,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. “Or perhaps it was before dawn at the palace in Rome. Or he stole a few seconds … continue reading
