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Steven Pressfield: "Remember, sticking points are good; they mean we're at the brink of a breakthrough. Resist the urge to respond with haste or emotion. Stay calm." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: How do you handle it when you get stuck during a painting or creative project?

Steven Pressfield: "Ambition is the artist's foundation. Dynamis in Greek: the drive to seek, to discover, to become. The Muse approves of ambition. Ambition gives the artist the passion to start and the tenacity to finish. But ambition must never be allowed to rise to the level of hubris." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Some thoughts on humility and ambition.

Steven Pressfield: "Do you want to do something great? Do you feel a secret power inside you? Do you hate being ordinary and normal? Do you refuse to accept that?" Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Are you ambitious?

Steven Pressfield: "Good things happen when we start before we're ready. Not only do we open ourselves to the blessings of happy serendipity, but we steal a march on the forces of procrastination, perfectionism, overpreparation, fear and self-doubt." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Steven Pressfield talks about more ways we resist our creativity.

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Steven Pressfield: "Cover the canvas. If our new piece is "The Last Supper," sketch in the apostles, lay in Jesus, get the table down. Don't sweat the details. It doesn't matter if Matthew's hair isn't right, or Peter's left hand has four fingers. We'll fix that later. Get the picture down. Cover the canvas." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: When beginning any new painting, Resistance is at its strongest. Steven Pressfield offers thoughts on overcoming it.

Steven Pressfield: "The part of our psyches that we write from, or paint from, or conceive new entrepreneurial or philanthropic ventures from . . . that part exists in a wholly different dimension from the part of us that is mucking up our personal lives. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Steven Pressfield talks about the Resistance & how no matter how messed up life is, our creativity is still there.

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Steven Pressfield: "Few things in life are sprints. Almost everything that's worthwhile is a marathon. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: A beautiful, inspiring story.

Steven Pressfield: "Nobody can stop us. The power is in our hands. It all comes down to you." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: A really great interview with Steven Pressfield, author of "The War of Art".

Steven Pressfield: "I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Sometimes we just don't do things for the money, and that's okay.

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Steven Pressfield: "Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Research can be necessary for some works of art, but don't let it take precedence to the work itself.

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Steven Pressfield: "Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Some thoughts on authenticity and finding your voice.

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Steven Pressfield : "We can't control the Muse. We can't command her. But we can serve her, and we can invoke her. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Steven Pressfield examines where creativity comes from and how we can invoke the Muse.

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Steven Pressfield : "When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Is your art a sacred practice?

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Steven Pressfield : "The Muse is like any other boss; she values talent, yes, but what she favors even more is devotion, dedication, perseverance. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Do you have helpful artistic habits?

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Steven Pressfield : "In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Do you have depth of work? Or are you just working the surface?

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Steven Pressfield : "But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Following your passion seems crazy, but it just might work.

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