The professional knows that if he gives in to resistance today, it will be twice as strong tomorrow. If you didn’t love what you’re doing, you wouldn’t feel anything.

The more afraid of something you are, the more you can be sure that you have to do it.

When they see someone living their authentic selves, they bring them down to feel better about themselves. He points out the real reasons why we do not achieve. Someone is free only to the extent of their self mastery. Steven Pressfield takes a no-nonesense, direct tone when teaching us through his book, the War of Art. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product. Procrastination is the most common form of resistance.Īll forms of indulgence are expressions of resistance. Pressfield masterfully calls you out and into the war you were meant to fight. The best thing you can do for another artist is to serve as an example. The War of Art is a battle plan for every creative. Resistance recruits allies, your friends and family will try to hold you back out of their own resistance (see subconscious sabotage). Resistance gets stronger closer to the finish line. Resistance never goes away, we just learn to better deal with it. The more important and true to our calling something is, the more resistance we will feel towards it. Resistance is internal, we all create it inside of ourselves. Things that create resistance: artistic expression, entrepreneurship, diet, spiritual improvement, exercise, breaking habits, education, helping others, emotional commitment, being principled in the face of adversity. The difference is the Resistance at work, Resistance holds us back from acheiving that ideal self. We all are haunted by the visions of the person we could be but aren’t. “Resistance” is the urge to procrastinate, delay, wait, the belief that you’re not ready, in sum anything that gets in the way of the artist creating his or her art. Your only goal each day should be to overcome resistance. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield The War of Art : Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and. We always end up facing a death wish, the tough long term struggle that could end up doing us some good.

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