Our life, YOUR life does not have to be this way. Take this farther, and you have clinical depression, aggression, dysfunction, and self-destruction - waiting to usher you into their wide open arms. We feel guilty, we feel unhappy, we feel like hell, we hate our lives, and our selves. Well, procrastinating on something makes it so much more rational doesn’t it? You don’t tell yourself “I’m never going to write that blog.” Instead, you tell yourself, “I am going to write that blog, I’m just gonna start tomorrow.” So easy for the moment, but what happens later? Procrastination is one of the most common manifestations of resistance. Now, you might have a question - isn’t this resistance, the same as procrastination? Well, you’re partly right. The more you can master your fear, the faster you can kill these internal demons. So how do we conquer this beast? Well, if you can cut off its food supply, it’ll starve to death right? Right - and what is that which resistance feeds on? It’s fear. And this very resistance will resort to any means to keep you from doing your work.

No, resistance is completely internal - it is self-generated and self-perpetuated. You see, we have all faced some kind of rut, or block - “writer’s block”, “painter’s block”, “designer’s block” - basically, if you can name a creative profession, it has a block associated with it.Īnd we often make the mistake of thinking that this resistance is external - for example, my work environment is so noisy, or, my boss is the worst, or, my job is so boring nowadays, or even, the weather’s not good today. This piece is going to be a review of the book “ The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.Īs you may have realised from the introduction to this episode, the book is all about understanding resistance, realising the effects of creative blocks, and overcoming them, by becoming true professionals.

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield