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The War of Art

Creativity

Steven Pressfield

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  • He then presents a rogue's gallery of the many manifestations of Resistance.
  • In the second book Pressfield lays out the day-by-day, step-by-step campaign of the professional: preparation, order, patience, endurance, acting in the face of fear and failure—no excuses, no bullshit.
  • When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
  • The enemy is a very good teacher.
  • Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction.
  • We don't even know what hit us. I never did.
  • Resistance plays for keeps. Resistance's goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
  • The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
  • To begin Book One, Pressfield labels the enemy of creativity Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish—that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.
  • Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully, cajole.
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