Overcoming The Resistance: Higher Callings
I am reading and reflecting on the excellent book by Stephen Pressfield , The War of Art . I actually read the manifesto Do The Work by Pressfield some time ago, and many of the ideas within War of Art were being fleshed out there. Sadly, I think I read Pressfield's manifesto when I was on one of my "read a book a week" kicks, and didn't really absorb the straight up truths that he was laying down about creativity, art and the pursuit of calling. Pressfield writes novels. His most famous, The Legend of Bagger Vance was made into a movie. His most recent novel was about the battle of Thermopylae . Pressfield speaks a great deal about what he calls Resistance--that which keeps us from pursuing our true calling, being our true selves, producing the art that we were born to produce. He offers a list of the activities, the callings, the art that most commonly cause Resistance to rear it's ugly head. See if you can find one that reso...