{"id":699,"date":"2021-07-20T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:45:32","slug":"the-obstacle-is-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/the-obstacle-is-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obstacle Is The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have read before about Stoicism and from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanholiday.net\/reading-list\/\">author<\/a> but somehow I needed a refresh and this <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Obstacle-Way-Ancient-Adversity-Advantage\/dp\/1781251495\/\">book<\/a> helped me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The books is a kind of a how-to for Stoicism in XXI century. It is divided in three parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perception: See the world how it is, imperfect. Focus in the present, dont obsess in the future.  Don&#8217;t make it personal.<\/li><li>Action: Get your discipline, practice persistence, iterate, repeat. Failure is part of the game.<\/li><li>Will: build you core values, they are inside you, they support you, that&#8217;s what you can control. Anticipate (think negatively), Amor fati (love everything that happens), mortatility.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was reading the book, I was thinking about my current problems \/ issues at work and personal life. I felt a bit weird because depending on how I interpreted some points in the book, I thought I was doing the wrong thing regarding changing jobs. But then I realised, this was just a battle, another stage in the path, another boulder in the way. Sometimes you can climb the boulder, after a lot of hard work. But sometimes, you fail, miserably. So learn from it and move on. And actually that happened yesterday climbing, I managed a hard route after several weeks working on it (and I was shocked that It wasn&#8217;t that difficult) but then I failed in another one that I was always scared to try (because it was beyond my level a.k.a comfort-zone&#8230;) I made some good progress, but not enough to complete and it was going to removed too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So at the end, it is seeing the world as it is, imperfect. Not taking it too seriously, that was my mistake at work (again).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s see how it goes the next chapter. But I see clearly that I should try to review this book or similar a bit more often to refresh myself and keep up to date my internal citadel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read before about Stoicism and from the author but somehow I needed a refresh and this book helped me. The books is a kind of a how-to for Stoicism in XXI century. It is divided in three parts: Perception: See the world how it is, imperfect. Focus in the present, dont obsess in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/the-obstacle-is-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Obstacle Is The Way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}