The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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- ISBN13: 9780446691437
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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DO YOU:
· dream about writing the Fantastic American Novel?
· regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays?
· want to start a business or charity?
· wish you could start dieting or exercising today?
· hope to run a lengthy someday?
If “yes,” then you need…THE WAR OF ART
Now, in this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling leader Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. THE WAR OF ART is an inspirational, amusing, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to stimulate every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur.
Steven Pressfield enjoys fantastic international success as a bestselling novelist. But in order to reach the top he had to do a lot of work to fight the inner demons that told him he couldn’t make it. THE WAR OF ART is his challenge to creative block, and his succinct, straight-from-the-hip style will help every reader unleash their personal ambitions, be they literary, artistic, or business-minded.
According to Pressfield, the internal hindrance to success is Resistance. Resistance is the difference between the life you lead and the life you want to lead, and can take many forms. Pressfield shows readers how to identify and defeat Resistance at every turn and challenges them to change their amateurish, unsuccessful habits into a professional attitude that can get the job done. Finally, Sun Tzu for the soul!
Inspirational, amusing, and a fantastic kick in the pants, THE WAR OF ART is the perfect book for anyone who had a goal circumvented by life and circumstance: which is to say, you and everybody you’ve ever met.
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And a thin volume it is, as noted in an earlier review. Spending the money on paper and #2 pencils will do more to advance your writing career.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
…reading this book! It’s cynicism and judgemental view toward others was a huge turn-off. The leader may reflect he’s on the right path, but has yet to realize these same attitudes are a form of Resistance also. Therefore, “the war of art” lacks credibility.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
the best thing about this book is the hardback binding with its cool sparkly take in. the contents are pithy, but mundane. there are no new observations on building art. his insistent personification of dread and building is sad. there are much better book about overcoming resistence and building art. but if you like pretty sparkly things, you’ll like the take in.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Not a terrible book. Has some excellent thoughts but it is not one that I will pick up and read over for insight or inspiration.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Steven Pressfield had the opportunity and premise to do something fantastic here; but, ‘fantastic’ is not at all what The War of Art is. An elitist, ego-centric, ethno-centric, uncompassionate, un-empathetic, and a narrow-boxed view of things (seemingly based in the school of Scientology) breakdown of procrastination is what you get. I know that this book is meant to be a ‘no-excuses’ book camp for the mind. Motivation but does not have to be belittling. Pressfield manages to dispel psychology and modern medicine and the fact that some people have real problems. Moreover; he not only mocks the thought of socio-economic status being a real influence in procrastination and where life leads us; but he goes as far as to mock the culture(s) that may live within. Negatively referring to ‘RAP’ composition and using the term ‘Homies’ in a discerning tone; as if an affluent male born in 1943 is such an practiced to comment on these things.
Take out the fact that over 80% of this book has 1 page chapters, or that the same message is delivered in this ‘cliff’s notes’ style; what Pressfield has done is to take his own life and his own experiences and said “This is how I see it; this is how it is; everyone in this world is afforded the same health and opportunities as me; see how I can fit everything into a clean box?”. If the book was title “I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread and because I’m not bone idle; neither should you be”; then you’d have a winner on your hand.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5