Steven Pressfield

But then that sort of whisper urge to do this thing is immediately countered by this force of resistance, you know, because it's trying to stop us.

It's the devil.

It's trying to stop us from being our true selves and becoming self-realized, self-actualized or whatever.

So resistance will immediately say to us, like if you were to say, oh, I want to have a podcast and I want to talk about, you know, science, da, da, da, immediately resistance would say,

Who are you, Andrew, to do this thing?

I mean, you're a professor, you know, at Stanford.

You know, we don't have any experience doing this.

Not to mention it's been done a million times by other people.

They've done it a thousand times better than you.

Nobody's going to give a shit.

You're going to put this out or you're going to embarrass yourself.

You had a certain level of prestige at Stanford.

Now you're an idiot.

You know, it's going to be that voice.

Yeah.

And the true part here, the really kind of interesting part is a lot of times those voices will be the voices closest to us, our spouse, our father, you know, because, well, I can get into that.

I'll get into that if we want to continue.

But in any event, so that voice of resistance will come up.

In addition, resistance will try to distract us.

You know, it'll try to make us procrastinate.