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The Resistance is most powerful at the finish line.

Everyone that has a body experiences Resistance. We may think that we’re the only ones struggling against Resistance, but that’s wrong. It doesn’t know you and it doesn’t care about you specifically, it’s a force of nature that acts objectively. But the Resistance is actually an enemy that comes from within. It may appear to be outside ourselves – we feel like we locate it in our boss, spouse, kids or jobs, and we blame them for standing in our way. It’s a repelling negative force whose aim is to shove us away, distract, prevent us from doing our work.

It cannot be seen, heard or touched, but it can be felt. If you’re a writer who doesn’t write, or a painter who doesn’t paint, or an entrepreneur that doesn’t start business, you know what the Resistance is. If you ever quit a diet or stopped going to yoga class or gave up meditation, you know what the Resistance is. If you’ve ever bought a treadmill that’s now gathering dust, you know what the Resistance is. What stands between the two is the Resistance. The unlived life is everything you dream for, everything you wish you could tackle, everything you hope to accomplish. That’s because Resistance is standing in our way.Īccording to Pressfield, most of us have two lives: the life we live and ‘the unlived life’. It’s true for sitting down and writing, but also true for starting a new diet or exercise regime, launching a new entrepreneurial venture, overcoming an addiction, starting an education course of any kind, any undertaking with the aim to help others, taking a principled political/moral/ethical stand, or any activity whose aim is tighter abdominal muscles. The act itself isn’t that hard, but those first few steps can feel almost impossible to overcome. This same idea goes for most things that require some investment of willpower or emotional labour. ‘Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles’ For anyone who wants to pursue a creative endeavour but has never been able to actually sit down and do the work, this book serves as a great kick in the behind. This book is all about The Resistance, and is broken into three parts: Defining the Enemy, Combatting Resistance, The Higher Realm. What keeps us from sitting down to write? The Resistance. “ There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t… It’s not the writing part that’s hard. But being able to write isn’t the be-all-and-end-all of actually writing a book.

For example, if you want to be a writer, based on the fact that you’re reading this, you have the ability to read and write. The Wars of Art shows us that if you’re looking to achieve anything, especially something creative, you almost definitely have the skills and abilities to be able to do it.