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The War of Art

2 highlights In book order (p. 7; loc 130)

💡 The takeaway

What these highlights point at Both highlights name the same enemy: Pressfield’s “Resistance” — the invisible, only-felt force that doesn’t argue with the calling you already know (“no one has to tell you”), it just repels you from starting. The practical edge: if you can feel a pull away from the work, that pull itself is the signal the work matters — Resistance only shows up for what’s worth doing.

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1 Location 130

Look in your own heart. Unless I’m crazy, right now a still, small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times before, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I’m crazy, you’re no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn’t real? Resistance will bury you.

2 Page 7

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. It’s a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.