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

the world is still constantly testing us. It asks: Are you worthy? Can you get past the things that inevitably fall in your way? Will you stand up and show us what you’re made of?

Perceive things as they are, leave no option unexplored, then stand strong and transform whatever can’t be changed. And

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

“The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.”

We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.

“ta eph’hemin, ta ouk eph’hemin.” What is up to us, what is not up to us.

resilient, adaptable, calm, brilliant. He could not be rattled—not

We’re working on it. We’re getting closer. When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.

While others obsess with observing the rules, we’re subtly undermining them and subverting them to our advantage.