Steven Pressfield

“If Resistence couldn’t be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistence 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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By no means is this the most prolific takeaway I acquired from the War of Art, though I read the book months ago, and this is the passage my mind seems to reflect upon most frequently.

I love to write and generally look forward to it, and I am often stunned by the speed at which my 90-minute writing bouts seem to pass by. But I’ll be honest, there are times when I dread the act, sitting and staring at the piss I had poured out my fingers as I await my alarm to ring.

As you know, I use particular techniques to entice the muse (as Pressfield would say), however, there is no magical ritual or secret blend of coffee to combat resistance. Instead, there is an undeniable stack of proof of those who have conquered it. The work has to get done one way or another. So thank god for willpower. The world would be far less beautiful without it.