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| Writer | Steven Pressfield |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Warner Books |
| Publish Date | 2002 |
| Pages | 181 |
| File Size | 1 MB |
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The War of Art PDF free download: Steven Pressfield wrote The War of Art for me. He undoubtedly wrote it for you, too, but I know he did it expressly for me because I hold Olympic records for procrastination. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating, thinking about my procrastination problem.
So Pressfield, that devil, asked me to write this foreword against a deadline, knowing that no matter how much I stalled, eventually I’d have to knuckle down and do the work. At the last possible hour, I did, and as I leafed through Book One, “Defining the Enemy,” I saw myself staring back guilty-eyed from every page. But then Book Two gave me a battle plan; Book Three, a vision of victory; and as I closed The War of Art, I felt a surge of positive calm.
I now know I can win this war. And if I can, so can you. To begin Book One, Pressfield labels the enemy of creativity Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish—that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something actually good.
He then presents a rogue’s gallery of the many manifestations of Resistance. You will recognize everyone, for this force lives within us all—self-sabotage, self-deception, self-corruption.