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Life & fun · July 24, 2015

The War of Art

Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles

The War of Art launched on July 24, 2015 with 93 votes, #505 of 4,208 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

Read this one first. It identifies the enemy—what I call Resistance with a capital “R,” i.e. fear, self-doubt, procrastination, perfectionism, all the forms of self-sabotage that stop us from doing our work and realizing our dreams. Start here. Everything else proceeds from this.

Friends used to come to me all the time and say, “I know I’ve got a book in me.” So I would try to help them. We’d sit up till two in the morning with me explaining the concept of Resistance and psyching my friends up to overcome their self-doubt, their vanity, their fear, their self-sabotage. I did this on about ten different occasions. No, I take that back. One person did, and it was a really good book that, alas, never found a publisher. I said to myself, Steve, why don’t you just write this stuff out in book form. Then when somebody tells you that they know they can be a writer and they want your advice, you can just hand them the book and say, “Here, read this.”…from stevenpressfield.com

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