Steven Pressfield’s masterful The War of Art taught us to see the force he calls resistance. Resistance is an elusive and wily force, an emotion that will conspire to block us, undermine us, or, at the very least, stall us in the pursuit of work that matters. Resistance focuses obsessively on bad outcomes because it wants to distract us from the work at hand. Resistance seeks reassurance for the same reason. Resistance relentlessly pushes us to seek confidence, then undermines that confidence as a way to stop us from moving forward. But if we don’t need confidence, if we can merely trust the
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