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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Day Force Mystery Purpose Start
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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Challenge Dreams Fear Joy Love Ourselves Passion See Work
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Fantasy Fight Inspirational Win Yourself
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Enemy Resistance Rise Rival
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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Adversity Battle Face Greatness Ourselves
The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Enterprise Fear Feeling Growth Important Ourselves Soul
Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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Beginning Enemy Preparation Resistance Start Yourself
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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Action Brave Criticism Hate Himself
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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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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Life Live Resistance Stand
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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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

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