Stephen Pressfield, the brilliant author, describes why resistance is a prerequisite, not an obstacle, in his book The War of Art (Pressfield 2012): “Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore, the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That’s why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there’d be no Resistance.”
