The Obstacle Is the Way

Description

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph is a book, and the foundation for this book is in Stoicism. Holiday explores the art of how obstacles in your life can be translated as opportunities for growth if dealt with in the appropriate mental state. Inspired by figures like Marcus Aurelius’ Stoic philosophy, he offers a framework in his book for embracing adversity.
The book is categorized into three parts:

Perception: Change what we perceive about the obstruction. Holiday says that it is only when we make ourselves objective, change from a negative perspective, and control our emotions that he will see an obstruction more as a possibility than danger.

Action: The Stoicism approach is not to let us paralyze but on purposeful resilient action; Holiday talks about breaking obstacle into workable pieces into manageable tasks and takes stable steps forward without letting fear, self-doubt and so on hold him/ her back.

Will is a strength that combines patience and acceptance. Indeed, we can’t alter our situation but can still change our attitude and hence be persistent in order to gain resilience and meaning in our difficulty.

The Obstacle Is the Way, founded on actual examples from history and the wisdom of Stoicism, provokes readers to see past the obstacles and understand and experience adversity as a stepping stone toward the realization of dreams and the success that they can achieve, makes them think tough, become resilient, and believe that the obstacles go along with the path, the route to success.