by Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne
It was a book on what is resistance and why we procrastinate, it gives the anatomy of resistance but nothing much beyond that. I was hoping for some tips or tricks or tools that will help us procrastinate less instead we only get to acknowledge resistance as a real problem. Breezy but disappointing ...
The first two parts of this book made very good points. I fully expected to enjoy the third part as well, but by then I was starting to get bored of the book. While I do believe in God, the author's way of speaking about generic higher powers, and of muses whispering in an artist's ears rubbed me th...
I don't for a minute believe anything Pressfield says about the universe or inspiration. Like so many "self help" books, Pressfield's advice is founded on a completely unsupportable metaphysic - I find myself utterly disagreeing and rejecting his metaphysics while finding his practical advise utterl...
This book is fierce. I picked it up late one night while fighting the flu and the next morning, I was like an efficient machine. I felt extremely motivated to continue my efforts on a few projects that had been languishing on the back burner. The author shines a very bright light on that cunning,...
The first couple of sections are about 'resistance' to your art (in this case writing, buy equally could be applied to any art, or any occupation), what forms the resistance manifests itself and what you can do about it. The book is very easy to digest, straight forward, short and filled with (most...
Sometimes you can take a simple idea and write a whole book about it and it have the book be incredibly successful. The War of Art does this. The idea is that resistance is the enemy of creativity and beating it is the way to become creatively productive.The topic is explored from a number of angles...
I agree with the basic idea behind this book-- that to do your work, you just need to go ahead and do it, and do it everyday-- but I feel like the book is often muddled by the author's references to the spiritual. I suspect that all those diversions about invoking the Muse are really just to increas...
While I didn't think Pressfield's manifesto was as earth-shattering as some claim (I have writer friends who swear by this book), I found the simple message *Do the Work* oft repeated to be effective in overcoming my own inertia. Writers should also check out the NaNoWriMo bible, No Plot No Problem....
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