The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

But you, when you’re dealt a bad hand. What’s your response? Do you fold? Or do you play it for all you’ve got? There’s an explosion, metaphoric or otherwise. Are you the guy running toward it? Or running away from it? Or worse, are you paralyzed and do nothing?

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility;

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Nothing can ever prevent us from trying. Ever.

Objectivity means removing “you”—the subjective part—from the equation.

Like oxygen to a fire, obstacles became fuel for the blaze that was their ambition.

What Zemurray never lost sight of was the mission:

a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school . . . it is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

You don’t convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alternative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp.