The Resistance (From the War of Art)

Steven Pressfield writes like a machine gun. The last paragraph of the introduction to The WAR of ART is a tour-de-force- it's a half-time locker room speech for every creative endeavor the world over. If you haven't read it, you should. If you haven't embraced it, you're behind. This rant is a powerful ride. Take it for what it is: a call to arms. A mantra to create and thrive by. Take this mantra and put over your desk. Put it over your conference table. Put it in your warroom. Share it with your team. This poster is officially licensed from the kind (and insightful) people at Rugged Land books, who own the copyright. Infringers will be shot on sight. This officially licensed quote from The War of Art. "Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction. To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. ... Resistance is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, harder to kick than crack cocaine. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. ..Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? Does Resistance have to cripple and disfigure our lives before we wake up to its existence? How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to? Resistance defeats us. ...it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.'