![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pressfield claims that our modern-day health problems such as ADD, ADHD, depression, etc are instigated by advertising firms and drug companies taking advantage of people’s resistance. There always seems to be strife in the home because there is always someone in the family willing to trigger it. Pressfield uses examples such as the chaos of the family drama. The War of Art also goes into how resistance disrupts and tears away at the lives of ordinary people. It was easier for Hitler to start World War II than to confront a blank canvas. Pressfield believes Hitler never made it as a painter because resistance conquered him. When Hitler was younger, he attended university with the aspiration to become a painter. Pressfield even goes so far as to claim that the majority of the world’s problems from cancer to war can be traced back to people failing to overcome resistance.Īn example Pressfield used was Adolf Hitler. He described the type of havoc resistance can create, and the long-term damage that it’s capable of. In Pressfield’s book, he lays the case for how truly destructive resistance can be. Resistance is what causes that bad habit of procrastination, which prevents you from getting anything started or anything completed. It’s that fear you experience every time you stare at a blank page. What is resistance? It’s the thing that causes writer’s block. This book focuses on the number one foe of any creative, resistance. ![]() The War of Art is a self-help book of sorts for creatives of all stripes. ![]()
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