What’s Inspiring Me - The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
April 2026
What I’m reading
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
If you create anything — a business, a brand, a body of work — this book will name something you’ve been living but couldn’t quite articulate.
What has stayed with me is recognizing how sophisticated Resistance can be.
If you create anything — a business, a brand, a body of work — this book will name something you’ve been living but couldn’t quite articulate. Pressfield calls it Resistance, and the moment I encountered that word in his pages, I felt the particular relief of being understood. Resistance is the invisible force that rises up every single time you move toward the work that matters most. It isn’t laziness. It isn’t a lack of passion. It is, as Pressfield describes it, proportional to the importance of what you’re trying to do. The bigger the dream, the louder the noise.
What has stayed with me is recognizing how sophisticated Resistance can be.
For creative entrepreneurs, it rarely shows up as doing nothing. It shows up as doing almost everything — the emails, the brand tweaks, the research rabbit holes that feel like progress but quietly keep us from the real work.
Pressfield gave me language for that pattern, and language is power. You can’t fight what you can’t name.
The book is short, direct, and a little fierce — in the best way. Pressfield doesn’t coddle, but he does believe in you. He writes from the conviction that the work you’re avoiding is exactly the work the world needs from you. If you’ve ever stared at a blank page, a blank offer, or a blank calendar block you scheduled for yourself and then filled it with something safer — this book is your mirror and your permission slip, both at once.
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