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The War of Art

The War of Art

Titel: The War of Art
Autoren: Steven Pressfield
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painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.
     
    2) The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.
     
    3) Any diet or health regimen.
     
    4) Any program of spiritual advancement.
     
    5) Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.
     
    6) Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.
     
    7) Education of every kind.
     
    8) Any act of political, moral, or ethical courage, including the decision to change for the better some unworthy pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.
     
    9) The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.
     
    10) Any act that entails commitment of the heart. The decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a rocky patch in a relationship.
     
    11) The taking of any principled stand in the face of adversity.
     
    In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
     
    Now: what are the characteristics of Resistance?

 
    RESISTANCE IS INVISIBLE
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    R esistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. It’s a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

 
    RESISTANCE IS INTERNAL
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    Resistance seems to come from outside ourselves. We locate it in spouses, jobs, bosses, kids. “Peripheral opponents,” as Pat Riley used to say when he coached the Los Angeles Lakers.
     
    Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.

 
    RESISTANCE IS INSIDIOUS
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    Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully, cajole. Resistance is protean. It will assume any form, if that’s what it takes to deceive you. It will reason with you like a lawyer or jam a nine-millimeter in your face like a stickup man. Resistance has no conscience. It will pledge anything to get a deal, then double-cross you as soon as your back is turned. If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

 
    RESISTANCE IS IMPLACABLE
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    Resistance is like the Alien or the Terminator or the shark in Jaws . It cannot be reasoned with. It understands nothing but power. It is an engine of destruction, programmed from the factory with one object only: to prevent us from doing our work. Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable. Reduce it to a single cell and that cell will continue to attack.
     
    This is Resistance’s nature. It’s all it knows.

 
    RESISTANCE IS IMPERSONAL
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    Resistance is not out to get you personally. It doesn’t know who you are and doesn’t care. Resistance is a force of nature. It acts objectively.
     
    Though it feels malevolent, Resistance in fact operates with the indifference of rain and transits the heavens by the same laws as the stars. When we marshal our forces to combat Resistance, we must remember this.

 
    RESISTANCE IS INFALLIBLE
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    Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.
     
    We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
     
    Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

 
    RESISTANCE IS UNIVERSAL
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    We’re wrong if we think we’re the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

 
    RESISTANCE NEVER SLEEPS
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    Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, 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.

 
    RESISTANCE PLAYS FOR KEEPS
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    Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill. Its target is the epicenter of our being: our
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