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The Obstacle is the Way

Ryan Holiday

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“i'm pretty pretty sure but you know i just thought it was fascinating just a coach taking the time to think of his teammates and give them food for thought something to think about and i always enjoyed that and i would read it and i felt like i was getting inside his mind and the minds of others reading these passages and kind of taking you know and interpreting it for myself right before the game you know it was always great wow so you would read right before right before playing oh yeah really i would uh it was uh funny pat riley he told me he's like you like kareem kareem abdul-jabbar he would sit there and read the whole time and a couple of my young players when i was the old grizzled vet they they told me like i would just sit there reading and you know i'm oblivious to this stuff i'm just getting my mind right you know this was i read because this was my relaxing time because this is about to get hectic yeah so you're not reading like black hawk down you're reading maybe maybe i might yeah but if i'm reading black hawk down it's the playoffs [Laughter] you know it's winning time but you know i always tried to give myself that peace of mind it was like i felt like it was my time and granted we're in the locker room there's media everywhere and people it's like the buzz of an nba game about to start and i would sit there and they told me man when you close that book it's like all right he's ready let's go yeah yeah i would read and all the way up until coast is about to start talking it's like all right cool let's uh let's go and do it are there any books that you've reread multiple times that come to mind i mean or was it always a new book that you would read i always read a new book but the book that i read all the time which you uh i know that you're uh a connoisseur of japanese culture is uh the way and the power you heard of that book no so it's a book called the way in the power”

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