Steven Pressfield

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't know. And the secret is this. It's the writing is not the hard part. What's hard is sitting down to write. And I believe that completely. And what we all have to do in our own way, and everybody does it differently, is find some way to slay this dragon every morning. To be able to work.

Obviously, if you can't work, you can't do anything. But... The first step to that, in my opinion, is recognizing that there is this negative force. You know, you sit down at the blank page and it radiates off that blank page, right? You know, let's go to the beach, you know, let's smoke a joint, let's whatever, right? Something that the resistance is always trying to stop us from doing our work.

Obviously, if you can't work, you can't do anything. But... The first step to that, in my opinion, is recognizing that there is this negative force. You know, you sit down at the blank page and it radiates off that blank page, right? You know, let's go to the beach, you know, let's smoke a joint, let's whatever, right? Something that the resistance is always trying to stop us from doing our work.

Obviously, if you can't work, you can't do anything. But... The first step to that, in my opinion, is recognizing that there is this negative force. You know, you sit down at the blank page and it radiates off that blank page, right? You know, let's go to the beach, you know, let's smoke a joint, let's whatever, right? Something that the resistance is always trying to stop us from doing our work.

So if we can believe that, accept it, feel it inside us, then we can overcome it. We can dismiss it and just say, well, bullshit, I'm just going to sit down and do my work. And to me, it's like jumping into a cold pool.

So if we can believe that, accept it, feel it inside us, then we can overcome it. We can dismiss it and just say, well, bullshit, I'm just going to sit down and do my work. And to me, it's like jumping into a cold pool.

So if we can believe that, accept it, feel it inside us, then we can overcome it. We can dismiss it and just say, well, bullshit, I'm just going to sit down and do my work. And to me, it's like jumping into a cold pool.

It's hard when you're standing on the edge, but once you're in the water, in other words, once you start writing or dancing or doing whatever it is you're going to do, then that fear goes away. And fear is a huge part of it too, Andre, right? It's like fear of success, fear of failure, fear of destitution, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of looking like an idiot.

It's hard when you're standing on the edge, but once you're in the water, in other words, once you start writing or dancing or doing whatever it is you're going to do, then that fear goes away. And fear is a huge part of it too, Andre, right? It's like fear of success, fear of failure, fear of destitution, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of looking like an idiot.

It's hard when you're standing on the edge, but once you're in the water, in other words, once you start writing or dancing or doing whatever it is you're going to do, then that fear goes away. And fear is a huge part of it too, Andre, right? It's like fear of success, fear of failure, fear of destitution, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of looking like an idiot.

And somehow we all have to get past that. You know, that I don't give a shit, I'm gonna do it anyway. The pain, when the pain of not doing the work becomes worse than the pain of doing the work, then we'll actually sit down and do it. But the good news is once we start to do it immediately, everything is okay.

And somehow we all have to get past that. You know, that I don't give a shit, I'm gonna do it anyway. The pain, when the pain of not doing the work becomes worse than the pain of doing the work, then we'll actually sit down and do it. But the good news is once we start to do it immediately, everything is okay.

And somehow we all have to get past that. You know, that I don't give a shit, I'm gonna do it anyway. The pain, when the pain of not doing the work becomes worse than the pain of doing the work, then we'll actually sit down and do it. But the good news is once we start to do it immediately, everything is okay.

Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears. And the shadow is equal to the tree, right? If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow. So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have. The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever. And resistance is the shadow.

Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears. And the shadow is equal to the tree, right? If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow. So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have. The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever. And resistance is the shadow.

Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears. And the shadow is equal to the tree, right? If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow. So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have. The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever. And resistance is the shadow.

So there would not, what I want to say is resistance always comes second. There would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream, if there wasn't a calling that was inside you. So the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance, that big shadow, Das zeigt, dass es einen großen Baum gibt.

So there would not, what I want to say is resistance always comes second. There would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream, if there wasn't a calling that was inside you. So the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance, that big shadow, Das zeigt, dass es einen großen Baum gibt.

So there would not, what I want to say is resistance always comes second. There would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream, if there wasn't a calling that was inside you. So the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance, that big shadow, Das zeigt, dass es einen großen Baum gibt.

Es gibt große Träume, weil Resistenz immer wie Newton's drittes Gesetz der Bewegung kommt, eine gleiche und äußerliche Reaktion. Es ist eine Reaktion zu einer Aspiration, zu einem Buch, das du schreiben willst, oder einem Film, das du willst, was auch immer es ist.