Steven Pressfield

And it will say, clickbait, you go down this rabbit hole of whatever it is, or let's get drunk, or let's have an affair, or let's go to the beach, let's get whatever, that kind of thing. And after a while you recognize that There is an enemy. The playing field is not level when you sit down to do anything creative or entrepreneurial.

And it will say, clickbait, you go down this rabbit hole of whatever it is, or let's get drunk, or let's have an affair, or let's go to the beach, let's get whatever, that kind of thing. And after a while you recognize that There is an enemy. The playing field is not level when you sit down to do anything creative or entrepreneurial.

And it will say, clickbait, you go down this rabbit hole of whatever it is, or let's get drunk, or let's have an affair, or let's go to the beach, let's get whatever, that kind of thing. And after a while you recognize that There is an enemy. The playing field is not level when you sit down to do anything creative or entrepreneurial.

There is this negative force out there that I believe is like the force of gravity. It just exists in the real world. There's nothing you can do about it. Es ist da, es kämpft dich, es wird dich jeden Tag in deinem Leben kämpfen. Ich bin in diesem Geschäft jetzt seit 50 Jahren und die Stärke der Resistenz geht nie weg. and never diminishes. It's the dragon you have to slay every morning anew.

There is this negative force out there that I believe is like the force of gravity. It just exists in the real world. There's nothing you can do about it. Es ist da, es kämpft dich, es wird dich jeden Tag in deinem Leben kämpfen. Ich bin in diesem Geschäft jetzt seit 50 Jahren und die Stärke der Resistenz geht nie weg. and never diminishes. It's the dragon you have to slay every morning anew.

There is this negative force out there that I believe is like the force of gravity. It just exists in the real world. There's nothing you can do about it. Es ist da, es kämpft dich, es wird dich jeden Tag in deinem Leben kämpfen. Ich bin in diesem Geschäft jetzt seit 50 Jahren und die Stärke der Resistenz geht nie weg. and never diminishes. It's the dragon you have to slay every morning anew.

So I always say to any artist or any entrepreneur, before you even get into the skill of it, of whatever you're going to do, the first thing you have to do is recognize this negative force and find some way to overcome it, one day at a time, day after day after day.

So I always say to any artist or any entrepreneur, before you even get into the skill of it, of whatever you're going to do, the first thing you have to do is recognize this negative force and find some way to overcome it, one day at a time, day after day after day.

So I always say to any artist or any entrepreneur, before you even get into the skill of it, of whatever you're going to do, the first thing you have to do is recognize this negative force and find some way to overcome it, one day at a time, day after day after day.

belief in the calling or the thing you're pursuing or else it's easy for that just to to collapse you right yeah and like you say because it never stops it's like you might defeat it you know for a week or two weeks or in training you know or work that you're trying to do and then resistance will even use that success against you and the voice in your head will say oh you've done great for those two weeks you really got licked you know

belief in the calling or the thing you're pursuing or else it's easy for that just to to collapse you right yeah and like you say because it never stops it's like you might defeat it you know for a week or two weeks or in training you know or work that you're trying to do and then resistance will even use that success against you and the voice in your head will say oh you've done great for those two weeks you really got licked you know

belief in the calling or the thing you're pursuing or else it's easy for that just to to collapse you right yeah and like you say because it never stops it's like you might defeat it you know for a week or two weeks or in training you know or work that you're trying to do and then resistance will even use that success against you and the voice in your head will say oh you've done great for those two weeks you really got licked you know

Let's take the day off, you know, or it's Sunday or, you know, our wife wants to do that, blah, blah, blah. And of course you can't be hardcore 24 hours a day, but you do have to sort of think in marathon terms. You know, I think of this absolutely as a lifetime commitment, you know, when I'm dead, I'll stop worrying about this, but not until then. And so, uh,

Let's take the day off, you know, or it's Sunday or, you know, our wife wants to do that, blah, blah, blah. And of course you can't be hardcore 24 hours a day, but you do have to sort of think in marathon terms. You know, I think of this absolutely as a lifetime commitment, you know, when I'm dead, I'll stop worrying about this, but not until then. And so, uh,

Let's take the day off, you know, or it's Sunday or, you know, our wife wants to do that, blah, blah, blah. And of course you can't be hardcore 24 hours a day, but you do have to sort of think in marathon terms. You know, I think of this absolutely as a lifetime commitment, you know, when I'm dead, I'll stop worrying about this, but not until then. And so, uh,

Es ist so diabolisch, die Stimme in deinem Kopf, in den nuanced Wegen, die versuchen, dich rauszufaken und dich zu stoppen. Es ist wirklich interessant, was du gemacht hast, Russell, mit deinem Telefon, wo du dich aufmerksam hattest. Aber ich habe das nie gemacht. Aber ich würde mir vorstellen, dass es mich 500 Mal am Tag schlägt.

Es ist so diabolisch, die Stimme in deinem Kopf, in den nuanced Wegen, die versuchen, dich rauszufaken und dich zu stoppen. Es ist wirklich interessant, was du gemacht hast, Russell, mit deinem Telefon, wo du dich aufmerksam hattest. Aber ich habe das nie gemacht. Aber ich würde mir vorstellen, dass es mich 500 Mal am Tag schlägt.

Es ist so diabolisch, die Stimme in deinem Kopf, in den nuanced Wegen, die versuchen, dich rauszufaken und dich zu stoppen. Es ist wirklich interessant, was du gemacht hast, Russell, mit deinem Telefon, wo du dich aufmerksam hattest. Aber ich habe das nie gemacht. Aber ich würde mir vorstellen, dass es mich 500 Mal am Tag schlägt.

Weißt du, was ich meine? Lass mich hier eine Sache ausdrücken, die vielleicht, vielleicht wirst du mich etwas über das fragen, aber vielleicht ist das, was ich jetzt sagen möchte, vielleicht sehr hilfreich für jeden, der darüber nachdenkt. Und das ist, dass 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?

Weißt du, was ich meine? Lass mich hier eine Sache ausdrücken, die vielleicht, vielleicht wirst du mich etwas über das fragen, aber vielleicht ist das, was ich jetzt sagen möchte, vielleicht sehr hilfreich für jeden, der darüber nachdenkt. Und das ist, dass 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?