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A while ago, I stumbled upon this poem by Charles Bukowski on what it takes to be a writer

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything

Don't do it

Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut

Don't do it

If you have to sit up for hours staring at your computer screen

Or hunched over your typewriter, searching for words

Don't do it

If it's hard work. Just thinking about doing it. Don't do it

Unless - it comes out of your soul like a rocket

Unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder. Don't do it

When it is truly time, if you have been chosen

It will do it by itself, and then it will keep on doing it until you die, or it dies in you

there is no other way and

there never was

his message, of course, extends to other creative professions from

Directing to composing music to painting or even sports and although

I think it's a beautiful poem and quite a romantic way of looking at creative endeavors

he's also horribly and

fundamentally wrong

History is filled with creative

Geniuses where it didn't just came bursting out of them take some of our current super talent writers
for example

From Aaron Sorkin who describes having a perpetual writer's block?

to George R R Martin who can't seem to finish his new book to

Tarantino who has spoken about how

difficult it is to be staring at an empty piece of paper where somehow his new movie needs to appear
and

Finally Robert mcKee writer of the Bible in screenwriting who claims he is the biggest procrastinate in
the world?
I Think for these creative minds

but also for you, me and

Many others. The more excited you are about your creative endeavor the bigger the project and more

Important to fulfilling your dreams, the harder it is to actually sit down and do it

The trap that many writers including myself fall into mainly consists of staring motionless at a blank page

It's not that we don't want to write or that we don't have the ability to put words down on the page

We just don't have any good ideas. It's not a fun place to be believe me. As Steven Pressfield states

and he calls this force that keeps us from sitting down?

Resistance according to press field is what stands between the life?

We live and our in lift life

It stands between us and our dreams or who we want to become and what we want to create

are you a writer that doesn't write, a painter that doesn't paint, an

entrepreneur that never starts a venture... then you have Fallen victim to resistance

Resistance is to be taken seriously says Pressfield - it is to be declared Evil

Millions have been defeated by it, dreams have died because one gave up or never dared to start it is
therefore essential

To learn to recognize resistance and learn how to beat it

Pressfield gives a beautiful description of resistance he states that

we might think that it is friends, jobs, pets

Or the internet that keeps us from our creative work, but that's false

" I'm hungry, I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think

But I should write something first then reward myself with coffee

Coffee and a Muffin. Ok so I need to establish the scenes

maybe Banana nut.

That's a good muffin"

The Force of resistance that drives us to engage with these things and procrastinate, comes from
ourselves

Resistance is the self generated enemy from within

Resistance is most commonly expressed in progress of nation, because it is the easiest to rationalize

I'll Start but I 'll start tomorrow

God! There was one week when you wore sweat pants, Everyday

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

Of course resistance's goal is to have us saying this until our deathbed

other manifestations of resistance can be indulging in alcohol, sex, masturbation

TV, gossip and eating fats, sugar, salt and chocolate

Brassfield describes that indulging is not always a manifestation of resistance

but if you feel hollow and unfulfilled afterwards it probably was

We subconsciously know that we gave up our long term goal for instant gratification

Resistance beat us

you out there, sticking your dick in anything that moves, trying to get back at me.

Which is fine

you know what the worst thing is

You're not writing

you have this gift... you have this incredible talent, and you're just flushing it down the toilet
Resistance Expresses itself when you create drama in your life, claim victimhood. When you spend your
time

criticizing others, when you turn your life into a soap or when you rationalize away

Why you haven't started yet? The working artist doesn't accept this kind of

Self-Destructive behavior in his life because it prevents him from his work

Yet resistance can be helpful

Resistance points us to our true calling... it can be felt when we fear

Starting a creative project. This fear means that it is something that we need to do... Something

We have a deep love for. If you didn't love a project. that's terrifying you, you wouldn't feel anything at
all

[I] had some doubt you want excited upon the wire. I don't know if I'll [be] able to take

The more resistance you [feel] towards the project the more fulfilled you will be when you finish it

resistance always points us to our true north

so how do we

consistently beat resistance as Steven pressfield says by

Turning pro as he describes turning pro

it has nothing to do with making or not making money out of your creative work it is in fact a philosophy
of work and

ideology of ethics on how you conduct your creative projects

You [can] turn professional one day and be an amateur again the next

in

short I

was back

Yes, yes, there is something. I want to ask you. How the fuck. Do you write so many books so fast [I]?

think oh

I've had a really good six months

I've written three chapters

[and] you you've got three books at that time the way that the way that I work

[I] try to get out there

And I try to get six pages a day

So with a book like end of watch and I work when I'm working I work [everyday]
three four hours, and I try to get those six pages

And I try to get them fairly clean and you do hit six pages a day

I usually do now that is an example of a pro

Espress Field states the professional knows that the mundane physical act of sitting down and starting to
work sets in motion

and mysterious process that produces inspiration the amateur waits for

Inspiration the professional knows that it will come off

He starts now as you see turning pro has little to do with Talent George Rr

Martin is one of the most gifted authors [of] a generation that he hasn't turned Pro

which is why I am still waiting for his next book the

professional therefore x in the face of fear when the amateur fears a big creative endeavor he waits for
the fear to disappear the

Professional knows this will never happen and start anyway

An amateur dreams of stardom of Glory the professional was no use for this

He knows that success. Is merely a byproduct of work

It does the work and lets the rewards come or not come as they may by doing this to pro avoids

Disappointment, an ally of resistance, that it will use to make us give up

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party may I introduce don't you have it
in self?

You're on board my work. No no no no no I so now. I'm making this determination the chair will rule

Critical not a minute your screenplays are too long. I've heard that before

The professional also plays it as it lays

He doesn't find excuses in bad luck

Adversity or injustice neither does he let a windfall or good luck fool him into thinking he is there
already

I'll write you moving for 1,200 m and you don't want your name on

No, you don't want my name

He accepts the situation as it is the pro marches on no matter what the professional [lets] go of his ego

He doesn't take failure, or success personally

Fear of rejection is human and lies deep in everyone

Resistance knows this and uses it to paralyze us and prevent us from doing our work
[pressfield] states that this is one of the hardest aspects of turning pro the professional

Puts his heart and soul into his work

Then he steps [back] and assesses it hardly at coldly

He takes notes where he can do better his next project, and then he moves on the professional this
accepts criticism

But never takes it personally he knows resistance will use rejection to break him

Therefore the professional and Juris Adversity

When he's faced down in the arena chewing of scent and everyone's laughing at him

He knows it is still better to be in the arena than standing on the sidelines

Mostly where the amateur might make romantic claims about doing it for the love?

About not caring or being even proud of not making money the professional recognizes that too much
love will freeze him

Playing for money is the device he uses to adopt a Workingman mentality

Expressive states the muse of inspiration [laughs] a blue-collar work ethic

She lost a working stiff and hates prima donnas the pro takes money to turn his loss into his job
Technically place pay with in the end. He does it for a lost game

At this point you might be thinking what a cold and heartless way to look at creative work

Where's the romance where's the mythology where's the beauty and mystery of art?

These are things that we aim for when we turn pro because we know when we beat resistance and sit
down to do our work

something magical happens

When we sit down and grind it out inspiration Strikes words start flow effortlessly?

Color the flow state call it being in the zone or as brassfield the [solid] abuse

wear resistance resides in hell

creation has a season heaven here the music's down and admire [show] grind your

professionalism when you present yourself to her with an advocate of egolessness and surfers she will
come down and sit on your shoulder a

Powerful ally who will help you in your endeavor when we beat resistance and start the muse will guide
us?

battling the Dark Force of resistance

Beside us until we finish our project

It is only at this moment when you type that last word when you play that last
Note when you dance that last step that you can look resistance in the eye and say rest in peace

Motherfucker after which you will start a new project and the battle starts anew

Thanks for watching everyone in the day or two

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