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Bluey helped me out immensely at my research job. I was watching it with my daughter and in the episode, the father says, "Obstacles don't block the path. They

Bluey helped me out immensely at my research job. I was watching it with my daughter and in the episode, the father says, "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." It was a big ah-ha! moment that completely changed my attitude about the frustration I was having in my research. Then looking at my journal notes, it was all about obstacles and how to work through and around them, and that shift in perspective really accelerated my work.

h0l0cube 2y ago
You'd like this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way
- robotnikman 2y ago
  Seconding this book, this is one I go back to every once in a while.
- Tyr42 2y ago
  Thanks, bought it. Turns out it's on sale now too: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ
SkittlesNTwix 2y ago
> "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." This is a modern translation of what Marcus Aurelius said in "Meditations", his private diary. This particular paraphrasing and interpretation is by Ryan Holiday, a modern stoic with many books on the topic to his name. You would enjoy them. The original quote: "In one respect man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do good to men and endure them. But so far as some men make themselves obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which are indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road." Meditations, 5.20 Marcus Aurelius https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg

h0l0cube 2y ago

You'd like this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way

robotnikman 2y ago
Seconding this book, this is one I go back to every once in a while.
Tyr42 2y ago
Thanks, bought it. Turns out it's on sale now too: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ

SkittlesNTwix 2y ago

> "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." This is a modern translation of what Marcus Aurelius said in "Meditations", his private diary. This particular paraphrasing and interpretation is by Ryan Holiday, a modern stoic with many books on the topic to his name. You would enjoy them. The original quote: "In one respect man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do good to men and endure them. But so far as some men make themselves obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which are indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road." Meditations, 5.20 Marcus Aurelius https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg