Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Ryan Holiday - The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Ryan Holiday - The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Ryan Holiday


"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Ryan Holiday.

"ํ–‰๋™์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰๋Š” ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ง„์ „์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณง ๊ธธ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค." - ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด.


Ryan Holiday - The Impediment to Action Advances Action. What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way.


Ryan Holiday is a bestselling author, strategist, and modern stoic philosopher who has revolutionized how millions understand resilience and personal growth. Born in 1987, he is renowned for his works including "The Obstacle is the Way," "Ego is the Enemy," and "Stillness is the Key." As a marketing strategist and media entrepreneur, Holiday combines ancient stoic philosophy with contemporary business insights. His writing has influenced leaders across industries, from entrepreneurs to athletes to corporate executives. Through his books, essays, and speaking engagements, Holiday teaches practical wisdom about turning obstacles into opportunities and maintaining perspective during adversity. His philosophy emphasizes that challenges are not impediments to success but essential components of achieving meaningful goals.


๋ผ์ด์–ธ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ˜์‹ ํ•œ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ ์ €์ž, ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€, ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์Šคํ† ์•„ ์ฒ ํ•™์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1987๋…„์ƒ์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” "์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ธธ์ด๋‹ค", "์ž์•„๊ฐ€ ์ ์ด๋‹ค", "๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ์ด ์—ด์‡ ๋‹ค"๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ €์„œ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€์ด์ž ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€๋กœ์„œ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ์Šคํ† ์•„ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ €์ˆ ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์šด๋™์„ ์ˆ˜, ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ฐ์—… ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฑ…, ์—์„ธ์ด, ๊ฐ•์—ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด๋Š” ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  ์—ญ๊ฒฝ ์ค‘์— ๊ด€์ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ค์šฉ์  ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์š”์†Œ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Ryan Holiday


Reframing Obstacles as Opportunities

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way" distills stoic wisdom into a powerful reframing principle. Holiday's statement challenges the conventional perspective that obstacles hinder progress, asserting instead that difficulties contain hidden advantages. When faced with barriers, most people abandon their goals or seek alternative paths around resistance. Stoic philosophy teaches a counterintuitive approach: obstacles force creative problem-solving, reveal character, and strengthen resolve. The impediment creates the very conditions necessary for growth and breakthrough. By shifting perspective from "this blocks my path" to "this teaches me something valuable," individuals discover that what appeared as limitation becomes their greatest asset. This philosophy recognizes that resistance is information—it tells you what matters, what requires refinement, and where strength needs development.


"ํ–‰๋™์˜ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ง„์ „์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ธธ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค"๋Š” ์Šคํ† ์•„ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์žฌ์ •์˜ ์›์น™์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๋ฅ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด์˜ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ด€๋ก€์  ๊ด€์ ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€์‹  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ์ด์ ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ €ํ•ญ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ† ์•„ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ์—ญ์ง๊ด€์  ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์€ ์ฐฝ์˜์  ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ๊ฐ•์ œํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ด ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๋Š”๋‹ค"์—์„œ "์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นœ๋‹ค"๋กœ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ด๋™ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์ œํ•œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ์ €ํ•ญ์ด ์ •๋ณด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค—๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€, ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ •์ œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋””์„œ ๊ฐ•ํ•จ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งํ•ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Ryan Holiday


Mastering Obstacles Through Stoic Wisdom

Holiday's extensive research reveals how successful individuals throughout history transformed obstacles into advantages. Marcus Aurelius faced political challenges that deepened his philosophical wisdom. Thomas Edison's failures in developing the lightbulb contributed to innovation breakthroughs. Steve Jobs' removal from Apple led to creative ventures that ultimately strengthened his vision. These examples demonstrate that obstacles provide invaluable feedback and force strategic recalibration. When plans encounter resistance, the resistance teaches what requires adjustment. Holiday emphasizes that the stoic approach involves accepting what you cannot control while focusing energy on controlling your response. This perspective shift—from viewing obstacles as problems to viewing them as teachers—fundamentally transforms how individuals approach challenges. The impediment becomes not a barrier to overcome but rather information guiding improved action.


ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ์ด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋ฅด์ฟ ์Šค ์•„์šฐ๋ ๋ฆฌ์šฐ์Šค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์  ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ •์น˜์  ๊ณผ์ œ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค ์—๋””์Šจ์˜ ์ „๊ตฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์‹คํŒจ๋Š” ํ˜์‹  ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์žก์Šค์˜ ์• ํ”Œ์—์„œ์˜ ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋น„์ „์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•œ ์ฐฝ์˜์  ๋ฒค์ฒ˜๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์€ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋žต์  ์žฌ์กฐ์ •์„ ๊ฐ•์ œํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์ €ํ•ญ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ๋•Œ, ์ €ํ•ญ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด๋Š” ์Šคํ† ์•„ ์ ‘๊ทผ์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ด€์  ์ „ํ™˜—์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์—์„œ ๊ต์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ—๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ณผ์ œ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์€ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Ryan Holiday


Transforming Your Obstacles

Recognize that obstacles provide essential information about your path forward. When facing resistance, pause to understand what the difficulty reveals rather than immediately seeking alternatives. Accept what you cannot control while directing energy toward your response. Use obstacles as teachers, extracting lessons about strategy, persistence, and personal growth. Maintain perspective by remembering that difficulties have challenged successful people throughout history. Commit to working through obstacles rather than around them. Develop resilience by treating setbacks as temporary redirections rather than permanent defeats. View problems as opportunities to demonstrate character and creativity. Understand that the path forward often runs directly through the impediment. By adopting this stoic perspective, you transform obstacles from barriers into catalysts for profound growth and meaningful achievement.


์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์•ž๊ธธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ €ํ•ญ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋Œ€์ฒด์•ˆ์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ผ์‹œ ์ •์ง€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์œผ๋กœ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ต์‚ฌ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๋žต, ์ธ๋‚ด, ๊ฐœ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ถ”์ถœํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์ „ํ•ด์™”์Œ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž‘์—…ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์— ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ขŒ์ ˆ์„ ์˜๊ตฌ์  ํŒจ๋ฐฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ž„์‹œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์•ž๊ธธ์ด ์ข…์ข… ์ง์ ‘ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šดํ–‰๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ด ์Šคํ† ์•„ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ฑ„ํƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊นŠ์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์ทจ์˜ ์ด‰๋งค๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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