You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way we choose to give in to such feelings.

Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness-these reactions are functions of our perceptions.

If we are emotional, subjective and shortsighted, we only add to our troubles. Our perceptions can be a source of strength or of great weakness.

It’s how we see and understand what occurs around us-and what we decide those events will mean.

It’s three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.

It begins with how we look at our specific problems, our attitude or approach then the energy and creativity with which we actively break them down and turn them into opportunities finally, the cultivation and maintenance of an inner will that allows us to handle defeat and difficulty.Overcoming obstacles is a discipline of three critical steps.We’re soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. ] Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we’re supposed to live our lives.Today, most of our obstacles are internal, not external.When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go. All great victories, be they in politics, business, art, or seduction, involved resolving vexing problems with a potent cocktail of creativity, focus, and daring.

Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?.What stands in the way becomes the way.”.'The impediment to action advances action.And then he concluded with powerful words destined for maxim.The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.' but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. What he wrote is undoubtedly one of history’s most effective formulas for overcoming every negative situation we may encounter in life.

The obstacle is the way book summary