… If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. “Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
Here are ten quotes from Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, in no particular order, to kick your butt into gear. Your work, and therefore your life, would be better if you conquered the Resistance. It doesn’t matter who you are, what hobbies you enjoy, or what you do for a living. Seth Godin calls it the book he wishes he’d written. This book is one of very few I would put on a global must-read list. The book is easy-to-read, concise, and broken into many short chapters designed for busy folks who want to pick it up, crack it open, read for 2 minutes, get inspired, put it down and get back to work. From taking risks and making mistakes and failing gloriously in pursuit of something greater. What is Resistance? It’s the internal force that keeps you from showing us your best self. Its title is a clever play on Sun Tzu’s infamous work The Art of War, and its message can be boiled down to one simple idea: In order to do work that matters, one must understand and conquer the Resistance. In 2002 Steven Pressfield wrote The War of Art. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” “There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard.
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