The War Of Art

Doubt, My Old Friend

by John Lacey on December 12, 2009

I don’t do as much as I would like to. Infact I don’t even do as much as I intend to do. There’s this great inexplicable and hard-to-describe resistance that gnaws at me. I try to ignore it. It gets louder. I usually then procrastinate, play computer games, over-eat, over-sleep… But it doesn’t stand up to close scrunity. The voice inside me that says “You’ll never be able to do this” doesn’t make a lot of sense in the face of the understanding that I’ve usually done some version of the task before. Often numerous times. But, as Steve Pressfield notes in The War Of Art, it doesn’t have to make sense. It is an emotional impulse not a logical one.

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Unseen Forces

by John Lacey on September 4, 2009

How you conceptualise these ‘unseen forces’ is entirely up to you. Whether you choose to think of it as a muse, an angel, a deity, or – as I am tempted to – your subconscious mind, I think it is important to acknowledge that there are forces which are outside of your own directed energies.

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