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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.

Steven Pressfield

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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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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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Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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