Steven Pressfield: Resistance, Spartan Virtue, And The Unlived Life

is the Belkaia, the war of art.

This is where it looks out.

And The way I define resistance with capital R, speaking as a writer, your supplies will cost a boyfriend, entrepreneurs, any other kind of voice.

Anytime you sit down in front of one of these, as a writer, you can feel a negative force radiating off this keyboard.

The blank page is not neutral.

It is agly hostile.

And there is a force that will try to stop you from achieving your dreams, from being what you were born to be.

From writing, from dancing, from being an entrepreneur, whatever it is.

And that force will taste the form of a voice in your head.

And it will do one of two things.

The first thing is it will tell you that you're not worthy.

of following the dream that you have in your head.

You're too old.

You're too young.

You're too educated.

You're not educated enough.

It's too late.

Other people have already done it a million times better than you'll ever do it, et cetera, et cetera.

That's one way to decide to undermine your faith in yourself and in the project and your idea.

It'll also tell you if you imagine a company that you want to start.

It'll tell you that it's a loony idea.

It's upside 50 times.

It's failed every time, et cetera, et cetera.

The other thing that resistance would account for is you're inside of distracting.

Suppose that you're sitting, getting ready to sit down and do the work on that day.