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The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield
Summary
Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art is short, sharp and unusually sticky because it gives creative avoidance a name: Resistance. The book can be overdramatic, but that is also part of its force. It is useful for people avoiding the work they claim matters most: writing, building, applying, making, starting, finishing, pitching, or putting something real into the world.
“The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
Why it appears on Books For People Who
It belongs in procrastination and hard-things territory because it understands that avoidance often clusters around the work with the most meaning attached to it.
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