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 PRESSFIELDEvery sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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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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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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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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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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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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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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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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 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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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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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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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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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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