It is our death wish, our shadow self, seeking to sabotage our greatness. The problem is that any time we attempt to rise to the higher plane, Resistance prevents us.
It is the pursuit of our purpose that brings us happiness and contentment. We are all built for a purpose, for a higher calling that requires we express ourselves creatively, be it writing, painting, businessing, or charitying. Pressfield’s larger point goes as follows. It concerns three main ideas, each the subject of a separate ‘book’ within the same volume. The War Of Art is an inner game book for creatives which can easily be re-written into a daygame inner game textbook. That, dear reader, is my segue into the review. In daygame we call them Weasels, but in Pressfield’s The War Of Art he calls it Resistance and it’s the foundation of his book. The reason no-one wants to read books that force you to work hard is that forces the reader to confront Resistance. I’d be laughing my ass off too if I’d monetised his scam You should’ve gone the Models route, of bromides and platitudes that never require the reader to get off his arse but he still feels like his Game has improved. Within the Game world, the key point is this: does your book make people feel guilty for not approaching? If it does, you’ve just limited yourself to a tiny audience. There are very, very rare cases – The Godfather, Dark Souls – where an authentic vision can achieve financial success but even then they are drowned out by the likes of Avatar and Fortnite. The lowest common denominator in our retard culture demands it. To hit mainstream acceptance, you must be shit. Something I realised years ago is you can either be good, or you can be successful.
That he’s a snake-oil seller with nothing to say doesn’t matter. His singular contribution to the advancement of mindset literature was to uses asterisks in the place of swear words on the front cover, thus guaranteeing every mid-wit passing through the airport bookstore would pick up a copy. Mark Manson recently proved this with his execrable The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F**K.
They’ll sit on their fat ass, lap it up, and then recommend it to all their friends. Just tell everyone what they want to hear, and wrap it up in language that seems to elevate the reader.
Tony Robbins proved a long time ago that “mindset” books are a license to print money. “Nick, you should write an inner game textbook!” are words I’ve heard many a daygame savant speak to me.