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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.

Steven Pressfield

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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 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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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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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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