The War of Art (10)

Title: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Author: Steven Pressfield
Genre: Non-Fiction

I'm not normally one for self-help kinds of books. In fact I normally avoid them like the plague. I didn't think The War of Art would be quite as self-helpy as it is but you know what? I don't care that's it's self-help at all, it's fantastic.

It's a tiny little book and many of the pages only have a paragraph or two of text on them but the information and the emotion on those sparse pages are profoundly inspirational to me. What's perhaps most interesting though is that the pieces of the book that most resonated with me are things that I already knew. To put another way the book confirmed things I already knew but am sometimes afraid to face/admit. For example the thing on your to do list that you most procrastinate about is probably the thing you need to do most. It's probably the thing that will you lead you further down the path to a major goal, or the thing that will most move your art forward. For those reasons it's also the thing you're most afraid of doing because you're afraid of failing. This is so the case for me it's not even funny.

I highly recommend this book for any creative or entrepreneurial person who wants to better understand some of their creative blocks and procrastination tendencies.