The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The Art of War meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.
The Art of War meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446691437 (0446691437)
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: Warner Books
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Reference,
Language,
Business,
Art,
Self Help,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Design,
Personal Development
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...