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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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I am going to write my symphony I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
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Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference.
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It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
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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 more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
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The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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