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In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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