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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDIt is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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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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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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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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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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.
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