Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
Steven Pressfield
Language: English
Pages: 112
ISBN: 1936891379
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours." -- Steven Pressfield Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it's not about better ideas, it's about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance - a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door. Picking up where The War of Art and Turning Pro left off, Do The Work takes the reader from the start to the finish of any long-form project—novel, screenplay, album, software piece, you name it. Do The Work identifies the predictable Resistance Points along the way and walks you through each of them. No, you are not crazy. No, you are not alone. No, you are not the first person to "hit the wall" in Act Two. Do The Work charts the territory. It's the stage-by-stage road map for taking your project from Page One to THE END.
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himself and being consumed by it. Again, “What’s missing?” The involvement of the crew! If Ahab is the only crazy person aboard and the crew meekly follows him, that’s no good. The men must become as obsessed as their captain. A new scene. Ahab assembles the crew and forges new harpoons, made not for other whales but only to kill Moby Dick. “Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me. Well done! Let me touch the axis.” [Ahab pours the full voltage of his own electric hate,
years and had produced an excellent and deeply personal novel. It was done. He had it in its mailing box, complete with cover letter to his agent. But he couldn’t make himself send it off. Fear of rejection unmanned him. Shipping is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart. It requires killer instinct. We’ve got the monster down; now we have to drive a stake through its heart. Hamlet and Michael Crichton How hard is it to finish something? The greatest drama in the English language
instead heaven’s pale reflection? Fear of success is the essence of Resistance. It’s silent, covert, invisible … but it permeates every aspect of our lives and poisons them in ways we’re either blind to or in denial about. In the belly of the beast, you and I chose HEAVEN. We’ve learned and we’re stronger. Now we face the final test. Exposure In mountaineering, there’s a technical term called “exposure.” A climber is exposed when there is nothing but thin air beneath her. She
This is a topic for another book: the level of maturity, professionalism, and personal involvement demanded by the tectonic overthrows happening today in positioning, branding, marketing—not to mention pure art and soul-authenticity. But that’s for the future. For now: congratulations! You have done it! Kudos to You You’ve wrapped. You’ve shipped. You’ve licked this sonofabitch. Kudos to you! I salute anybody who took this vessel to sea and brought her safely again into port.
Allies Enough for now about the antagonists arrayed against us. Let’s consider the champions on our side: Stupidity Stubbornness Blind faith Passion Assistance (the opposite of Resistance) Friends and family Stay Stupid The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who understood how impossibly arduous were the tasks they had set themselves would have pulled the plug before he even began.
