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A Brief Note On “The War of Art”
How do you define a critic? I don’t remember where I first heard it, but here’s the definition I use, though frankly, until recently, I’d forgotten it. “A critic mediates between an artist and his...
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On Finishing “The War of Art”
So 24 hours later, I’m through Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. Without looking back at my notes and highlights, here are the take-aways for me, the specifics the little voice inside me is urging...
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17 Steps to Beating Resistance
Keeping the themes of “The War of Art” (by Stephen Pressfield) going one more day, let me ask you this: how did the battle with Resistance go today? Here’s how it went for me, and the 17 steps I took...
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“Do the Work” by Steven Pressfield
Van Gogh's "Man with Hoe" from the cover of Steven Pressfield's "Do the Work" What is it about people who speak with “authority” that can be so inspirational? (Who does that make you think of?)...
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It’s Already Been Done: A Particular Lie
At any given moment, there are millions of artists and craftspeople working around the world, making things that may or may not have any pragmatic use (depending on how you define pragmatics), and for...
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When The Body Speaks, Listening Might Be A Good Idea
Physically speaking, the past year has been strange. In April of 2014, I came back from my week of teaching in Hawaii and promptly got sick, something in my stomach that wrecked my system for a good...
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