TY - BOOK AU - Holiday,Ryan TI - The obstacle is the way: the ancient art of turning adversity to advantage SN - 9781781251485 U1 - 650.1 HOL PY - 2014/// PB - Profile Books KW - Success in business N2 - We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to show you how in every situation, that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better ER -