The battle, Pressfield asserts, involves dedication and daily action. Pressfield first defines the enemy (resistance), then encourages you to fight by “turning pro” and finally, in the third section, he shows you how to find inspiration in the “higher realm.” It encourages you to picture yourself as a soldier in the fight against, what else? Resistance. The War of Art breaks down the interaction with your art.
(Of course, reading it might be an act of resistance in itself. If you don’t know it, The War of Art is a must-read. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.” “Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five,” writes Pressfield.
Resistance, as Steven Pressfield points out in The War of Art, never sleeps. Resistance is invisible, internal, implacable, impersonal, infallible and insidious.
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