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The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.
Steven Pressfield
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Making yourself a corporation (or just thinking of yourself in that way) reinforces the idea of professionalism because it separates the artist-doing-the-work from the will-and-consciousness-running-the-show.
Steven Pressfield
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It's one thing to study warand another to live the warrior's life.- Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.
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The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell.
Steven Pressfield
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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops, and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
Steven Pressfield
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Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
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It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
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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.
Steven Pressfield
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Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath.Rest in peace, motherfucker.
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In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."Page 68
Steven Pressfield
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Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. It knows we can’t sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash.The professional, on the other hand, understands delayed gratification. He is the ant, not the grasshopper; the tortoise, not the hare... The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality.
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Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
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A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
Steven Pressfield
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What does Resistance feel like?   First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We’re bored, we’re restless. We can’t get no satisfaction. There’s guilt but we can’t put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We’re disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves.
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We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.
Steven Pressfield
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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
Steven Pressfield
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...fear doesn't go away.
Steven Pressfield
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.
Steven Pressfield
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The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?
Steven Pressfield
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The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.
Steven Pressfield
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When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.
Steven Pressfield
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Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
Steven Pressfield
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In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing?   In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can’t look is that place he must: within.
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Resistance has no conscience.
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Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
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Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
Steven Pressfield
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The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
Steven Pressfield
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The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.
Steven Pressfield
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
Steven Pressfield
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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.
Steven Pressfield
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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.
Steven Pressfield
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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.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
Steven Pressfield
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
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It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
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The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
Steven Pressfield
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Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.
Steven Pressfield
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The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.
Steven Pressfield
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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
Steven Pressfield
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Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
Steven Pressfield
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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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