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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Steven Pressfield

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