The War of Art, Episode 002

In this episode of Philip's Podcast, we take a deep dive into "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. The book is about Resistance, and how to overcome it. What is Resistance? From the book:

"Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. It's a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work." 

"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel towards pursuing it."

"Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious timetable for its completion. It knows we can't sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash. The professional steels himself at the start of a project, reminding himself it is the Iditarod, not the sixty-yard dash. He conserves his energy. He prepares his mind for the long haul. He sustains himself with the knowledge that if he can just keep those huskies mushing, sooner or later the sled will pull in to Nome." 

The book can be found on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/30nTREE 

The poem at the top of the show is [love is more thicker than forget] by ee cummings. 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forget