![]() ![]() ![]() To begin Book One, Pressfield labels the enemy of creativity Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish-that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good. But then Book Two gave me a battle plan Book Three, a vision of victory and as I closed The War of Art, I felt a surge of positive calm. At the last possible hour I did, and as I leafed through Book One, "Defining the Enemy," I saw myself staring back guilty-eyed from every page. So Pressfield, that devil, asked me to write this foreword against a deadline, knowing that no matter how much I stalled, eventually I'd have to knuckle down and do the work. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. He undoubtedly wrote it for you too, but I know he did it expressly for me because I hold Olympic records for procrastination. Steven Pressfield wrote The War of Art for me. Bestselling Author of STORY: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting ![]()
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