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 PRESSFIELDDon’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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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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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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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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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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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 best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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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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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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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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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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