![]() Pressfield is trying to get us to Turn Pro so that we can be the artist we were meant to be. It’s a tension that we all feel and are scared of. It’s in this striving to be Pro that we live our lives. Only those who fight the Resistance and Turn Pro are truly writers - or artists - and cease being wannabes. It’s in those 900 emails you deal with instead of writing that report, or getting your 1,000 words done for the day. He contends that all artists - and I’d expand this to knowledge workers and people in general - have Resistance looming over them sucking their will to be productive. ![]() In The War of Art, Pressfield attempts to address the invisible force we all deal with that stops us from getting to our work - or art, using his words - and keeps us operating in the realm of mediocrity as we evade our calling. ![]() ![]() While Pressfield mainly talks about a more typical artist in the book (painter, sculptor, writer…) I extend this to anyone doing creative work. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is an oft-cited book for any ‘artist’ to read. ![]()
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