Review: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Best book to kick your ass to action.

I bought, read, and reread this in Kindle years ago. But last week, I bought a paperback copy to take with me everywhere.

If, like me, you have a “technique and craft, not inspiration/Muse/etc.” approach to art and writing, you might think this book is woo woo and written for melodramatic people… Not so fast.

Does the the idea of leading two lives, a lived and unlived — your unfulfilled potential, the one you think about at night — life, resonate? Then Pressfield has an answer,

You think Resistance isn’t real? Resistance will bury you.

Read: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles