Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDCourage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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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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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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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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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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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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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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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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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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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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