You thought you were supposed to be doing this. You thought your job was to do that. You were on a mission to do something very specific.
But then what happened? Life happened. Stuff happened. Other people happened.
And now? Now that is the mission.
When Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous passage about how ‘the obstacle is the way’ this is what he was referring to. “There can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions,” he wrote, “Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.”
Nothing can prevent our mission, he was saying, because the mission adapts. We thought our assignment was one thing, but now we realize it’s another—it might be less fun, it might require more patience than we planned, more forgiveness than we possessed, demand more creativity than anticipated. But that’s the point!
We’re growing and changing and expanding to meet this new mission. The obstacle isn’t a detour. It is the path.
P.S. Rockefeller. Amelia Earhart. Steve Jobs. What made them extraordinary wasn’t the absence of obstacles. It was what they did with them.
The Obstacle Is The Waydraws on their stories and the ancient Stoic wisdom behind them to show how the thing blocking the path becomes the path. The 10th anniversary edition is expanded and updated with new stories—and it’s available in a signed edition and a keepsake leather edition.
You know that feeling when you leave a meeting and immediately forget half of what you agreed to? That is not a memory problem. It is a system problem. When your day is packed, there is no time to process or follow through.
Granola helps you do what you said you would do. Take quick notes during the meeting. Nothing formal. It transcribes everything and turns your notes into clear summaries with next steps.
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