Overcome Life Resistance E-Book

Aleksander Suchodolski

• Herausgeber: Aleksander Suchodolski
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 70

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

This book is designed to coach you through a project (a book, a ballet, a new business venture, a philanthropic enterprise) from You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. From conception to finished product, seeing it from the point of view of Resistance. Well hit every predictable Resistance Point along the way those junctures where fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, and all those other demons were all so familiar with can be counted upon to strike.

Leseprobe

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Overcome Life Resistance/

Right there, in your driveway, is a really fast car. Not one of In this manifesto, Steve gets practical, direct, and personal. Read those stupid Hamptons-style, rich-guy, showy cars like a Ferrari, it fast; then read it again and take notes. Th en buy a copy for

but an honest fast car, perhaps a Subaru WRX. And here are the everyone else who’s stuck and push them to get to work as well.

keys. Now go drive it.

Hurry.

Right there, on the runway, is a private jet, ready to fl y you wherever you want to go. Here’s the pilot, standing by. Go. Leave.

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Godin

Right there, in your hand, is a Chicago Pneumatics 0651 ham-Hastings-on-Hudson, January

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mer. You can drive a nail through just about anything with it, again and again if you choose. Time to use it.

And here’s a keyboard, connected to the entire world. Here’s a publishing platform you can use to interact with just about anyone, just about any time, for free. You wanted a level playing fi eld, one where you have just as good a shot as anyone else?

Here it is. Do the work.

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at’s what we’re all waiting for you to do—to do the work.

Steven Pressfi eld is the author of the most important book you’ve never read: The War of Art. It will help you understand why you’re stuck, it will kick you in the pants, and it will get you moving. You should, no, you must buy a copy as soon as you fi nish reading this.

About This Book

On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.

This book is designed to coach you through a project (a book, a ballet, a new business venture, a philanthropic enterprise) from You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

conception to finished product, seeing it from the point of view of Resistance.

We’ll hit every predictable Resistance Point along the way—

those junctures where fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, and all those other demons we’re all so familiar with can be counted upon to strike.

Where butts need to be kicked,

we shall kick them. Where kinder,

gentler methods are called for,

we’ll get out the kid gloves.

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is document is articulated for the most part in the lexicon of a writer—i.e., the model used is that of conceiving and constructing plays, novels, or screenplays. But the principles can be applied with equal eff ectiveness to any form of creative endeavor, including such seemingly far-afi eld enterprises as the 2

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acquisition of physical fi tness, the recovery from a broken heart, or the pursuit of any objective—emotional, intellectual, or spiritual—that involves moving from a lower or less conscious plane to a higher one.

ORIENTATION

ENEMIES AND ALLIES

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Our Enemies

5. Any activity whose aim is the acquisition of chiseled abdominals.

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e following is a list of the forces arrayed against us as artists 6. Any course or program designed to overcome an and entrepreneurs: unwholesome habit or addiction.

1. Resistance (i.e., fear, self-doubt, procrastination, 7. Education of every kind.

addiction, distraction, timidity, ego and narcissism, self-8. Any act of political, moral, or ethical courage, including loathing, perfectionism, etc.) the decision to change for the better some unworthy 2.

Rational

thought

pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.

3. Friends and family

9.

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e undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.

Resistance

10. Any act that entails commitment of the heart—the What exactly is this monster? Th e following few chapters from

decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a Th

e War of Art will bring us up to speed: rocky patch in a relationship.

11. Th

e taking of any principled stand in the face of

adversity.

Resistance’s Greatest Hits

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e following is a list, in no particular order, of those activities In other words, any act that rejects that most commonly elicit Resistance:

immediate gratifi cation in favor

1.

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e pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, of long-term growth, health, or fi lm, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.

integrity.

2.

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e launching of any entrepreneurial venture or

Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our enterprise, for profi t or otherwise.

higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit 3. Any diet or health regimen.

Resistance.

4. Any program of spiritual advancement.

Now: what are the characteristics of Resistance?

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Resistance Is Invisible

Resistance has no conscience. It will pledge anything to get a deal, then double-cross you as soon as your back is turned. If Resistance cannot be seen, heard, touched, or smelled. But it you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get.

can be felt. We experience it as an energy fi eld radiating from a work-in-potential.

Resistance is always lying and

Resistance is a repelling force. It’s

always full of shit.

negative. Its aim is to shove us

away, distract us, prevent us from

Resistance Is Impersonal

doing our work.

Resistance is not out to get you personally. It doesn’t know who you are and doesn’t care. Resistance is a force of nature. It acts objectively.

Resistance Is Insidious

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ough it feels malevolent,

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully, cajole.

Resistance in fact operates with

Resistance is protean. It will assume any form, if that’s what it the indiff erence of rain and takes to deceive you.

transits the heavens by the same

Resistance will reason with

laws as stars. When we marshal

you like a lawyer or jam a nine—

our forces to combat Resistance,

millimeter in your face like a

we must remember this.

stickup man.

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Resistance Is Infallible

Resistance Never Sleeps

Like a magnetized needle fl oating on a surface of oil, Resistance Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage perfor-will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or mance, even when he was seventy-fi ve.

action it most wants to stop us from doing.

In other words, fear doesn’t go

We can use this.

away. Th

e warrior and the artist

We can use it as a compass.

live by the same code of necessity,

which dictates that the battle must

We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or purpose that we must follow before all others.

be fought anew every day.

Rule of thumb: Th

e more

Resistance Plays for Keeps

important a call or action is to

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable.

our soul’s evolution, the more

Resistance aims to kill.

Resistance we will feel toward

pursuing it.

Its target is the epicenter of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on this earth to give and that no one else has but us. Resistance means business.

Resistance Is Universal

When we fi ght it, we are in a war to the death.

We’re wrong if we think we’re the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

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Rational Thought

Friends and Family

Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepre-Th

e problem with friends and family is that they know us as we neur’s worst enemy.

are. Th

ey are invested in maintaining us as we are.

Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because Th

e last thing we want is to

rational thought comes from the ego.

remain as we are.

Instead, we want to work from

If you’re reading this book, it’s because you sense inside you a the Self, that is, from instinct and second self, an unlived you.

intuition, from the unconscious.

With some exceptions (God bless them), friends and family are the enemy of this unmanifested you, this unborn self, this future Homer began both The Iliad and Th

e Odyssey with a prayer to

being.

the Muse. Th