The Obstacle Is the Way

I'm going to give you some thinking from this book.

The obstacle is the way.

Turning trials into triumph.

This is the type of strength that we want to have, the strength of doing that.

My favorite is The Ego is the Enemy.

He's written Obstacles the Way, Stillness is the Key.

But it's all about what you get from by achieving your goals, you know, the trophies, the rings, the money, whatever it is, it's not as important as who you become.

Uh, it's, it's in the becoming, it's always being a student, always understanding, you know, you don't have all the answers and the minute you do, uh, you regress.

Those are both fantastic books.

The Obstacle is the Way, Good to Great, really good recommendations.

What's your favorite AI tool that you've been using and how have you been using it?

well i'm always using cloud so i'm always inside cloud cloud co-worker we made many videos about that and i like it for for our clients to do analyze the data very quickly for example market share analysis i love that you know before i had to download the sqp put the data in a Google sheet or using any other software.

I remember Ryan Holiday is one of our clients.

He's got an amazing book called Obstacles the Way.

That book sold a lot of copies during COVID because everyone was seeing some obstacles.

Everybody needed

If anybody is going through, good for physical stuff, probably also all right for emotional stuff.

Uh, "Obstacle Is the Way" by Ryan Holiday, "Art of Resilience" by yourself on Audible, I think.

I go, go Audible 'cause that's cool.

Uh, and then, um, Resurfaced, the documentary about Andy Murray-

Hi, Ryan.

I want to say that your book, Obstacles the Way, helped me finish my master's thesis.

Oh, congratulations.

Thank you for that.

I feel like it's created this toxic feedback loop where like the worst people get the most attention.

And so I'm more worried about that than cancel culture.

I'm reading your book now, Ego's the Enemy.

I read Obstacles Away and I came across an interesting theme in it.

My wife is a rare book dealer, and she's an avid reader herself, so I really, um, should be reading more.

Um, but there is a book I'm very interested in reading, and that's The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday.

Uh, I'm very interested in stoicism, um, because the, the whole concept of you can't control anything that's external to you, you can only control your reaction to it.

Living with two teenagers, I've really taken that to heart, and I would like to really get more into that.