Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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