The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.

Dangerous, probably destructive thoughts here - undermines trust in the author who claims medical or psychological knowledge but seems actually to engage in victim-blaming.

Resistance also told me I shouldn't seek to instruct, or put myself forward as a purveyor of wisdom; that this was vain, egotistical, possibly even corrupt, and that it would work harm

He should have listened to his resistance-it was correct-he isn’t trained in medicine, psychiatry for example, yet is dispensing his “wisdom “.

This paragraph is garbage - ask any neuroscientist, neurologist, paleo archaeologist, anthropologist , etc

The Muses were nine sisters, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, which means "memory." Their names are Clio, Erato, Thalia, Terpsichore, Calliope, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Melpomene, and Urania.

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators.

This is total BS -- of course mother's are the creators of their offspring -- the idea that we are just vehicles for newborns comes from the Classical Greek's profound misogyny, denial of women as human

the idea of equating warriors with artists is as absurd as his angels and gods getting credit for human creativity. warriors exist to destroy utterly, that is the whole point of being a 'warrior '; artists are the polar opposite, their point being to create.