Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDFigure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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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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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 feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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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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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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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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