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The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
The War of Art
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780752860312 (0752860313)
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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rrkreads
rrkreads rated it
2.0 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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 ...
BagEndBooks
BagEndBooks rated it
3.0 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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...
riley
riley rated it
4.0 A must read if you struggle with motivation or writer's block
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...
Lee's Library
Lee's Library rated it
5.0 The War of Art - Watch out!
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,...
simmo
simmo rated it
3.0 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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...
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