Steven Pressfield. The War of Art. Read it. Then read the rest of his series on Resistance.
We’re all stuck. We’re all distracted. And we’re all 100% complicit in our own inertia.
And yet…
Resistance. The World and its tribes have aligned with Resistance to grease the skids and lay the soft pillow of inertia before you.
The tribes define the labels. They use the labels to trick you into thinking it’s us (good) versus them (evil). Resistance amplifies.
The only path to true winning starts with the mirror and ends with a private insurrection.
“As artists and professionals [and humans] it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection in our own skulls. In the uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc, but only by doing our work.”
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The next time you look across the table or the Twitterverse at your (supposed) rival, remember that you have also contributed your fair share of disposable income to Bullshit, Inc.
You’ve struggled. They’ve struggled. You’re actually on the same team.
Now let’s align and defeat the true enemy.
