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The notion that hard work and persistence in the face of struggle might have a role in all of this often gets lost. In 2014, Ryan Holiday released a bestselling book12 on exactly this subject, The Obstacle Is the Way. It offered an update to the Roman Stoic Marcus Aurelius’s claim that “the impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” And this is certainly true of the ecstatic way. All that “effortless effort” takes a lot of work. So do the hard thing and the rest becomes much easier: Enjoy the state, but be sure to do the work. And no matter how tempting it is: Don’t become a Bliss Junkie.
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
In this book, I’ve been making the case for a different framework: the creative society. As the pace of change in the world continues to accelerate, people must learn how to adapt to constantly changing conditions. Success in the future—for individuals, for communities, for companies, for nations as a whole—will be based on the ability to think and act creatively.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
It is solved by improving the design of the apparatus. As we will see in future chapters, this is exactly what your body does if you train in the appropriate way to allow it. Your body can add the equivalent of axles and internal tent poles!
Learning to Optimize Movement
Rob Gray
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