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Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Stay primitive. Trust the soup. Swing for the seats. And our final-final precept: 4. Be ready for Resistance.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Ask yourself what’s missing. Then fill that void.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Do research early or late. Don’t stop working. Never do research in prime working time. Research can be fun. It can be seductive. That’s its danger. We need it, we love it. But we must never forget that research can become Resistance. Soak up what you need to fill in the gaps. Keep working.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
a boatload of other well-intentioned ideologies that evolved during the mass-culture, industrialized, dehumanizing epoch of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—all posited the same fantasy. They all preached that human nature was perfectible and that, thereby, evil could be overcome.
Steven Pressfield • Do the Work
Answer the Question “What Is This About?”