To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWhen 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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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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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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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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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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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