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Ryan Holiday on Turning Obstacles to Advantages

By Kirk Barbera

May 21, 2015
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Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and the author of The Obstacle Is the Way and other books. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with him about his work and his advice for turning adversity to advantage. —Kirk Barbera

Kirk Barbera: When you dropped out of college at nineteen to work for best-selling author Robert Greene, what was your vision for your…

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