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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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Imagination Job Life Ourselves Philosophy Time
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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Call Scare Work
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
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Born Himself Learning Student Teacher
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
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
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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Basic Build Computer Discipline Motivational Strength Technology
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
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.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Fantasy Fight Inspirational Win Yourself
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
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
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Action Better Brave Park Place Stand
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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Artist Best Inspirational Service

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

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