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# The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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Review: Great and inspiring book for everybody - This is a great book. I've been able to recognize myself in everything written by the author. The author talks to artists, but the term artist has to be taken with a broad sense. He clarifies it early in the book, but don't forget it as you progress in the book. Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and potentially everybody can and should be an artist too, therefore this book targets everybody. This book arrives at the best time for me, I haven't been able to find someone who truly understands the way I feel. I was shocked when I read this : "I could not handle resistance. I had one novel nine-tenths of the way through and another at ninety-nine hundreth before I threw them in the trash. I couldn't finish them." Because it is exactly what happened to me. I was working on starting a web based venture, a web platform on which I've worked for months. At some point I was literally, nine-tenth of the way through. I estimated that I just needed 2 more weeks of work before finishing. Only 2 weeks after more than 8 months working on it ! But guess what : I never finished. I couldn't explained it. At the last minute, I decided to stop the development and begin to search for customers. It made sense, it was like a rationalization : instead of working in vain you'd rather get customers first. Then as day goes by, you see that it's difficult to get customer and you begin to think : the money will take some time to come here and you clearly need to work full-time on this. Are you really ready to do it ? And bit per bit you shift away, you become to be affected by other issues of you daily life. And one month later this project belongs to the past. You've just been lying to yourself, you've been self-defeating yourself. I didn't know it was resistance before reading the book. Procastination is a weak idea, this book is more than that. The author conceptualized everything perfectly. If you ever faced a situation where resistance has defeated you, it doesn't take long before you notice that the author has a real insight and knows what he is talking about. The strengh of this book is that the author has conceptualized this wide issue as well as the way to solve it, in an easy to read but powerful manner. The concept itself is powerful. But it's not enough, in my opinion the big strength is that while the author goes to the point, the book is not a collection of recipes. You don't find a 15 bullets points methodology to apply every morning. You find liberty, your mind is freed because you understand what's really going on. This is why this book is so great. It's very easy to do a time-management / project management book exposing some systematic method that are too be applied because they just "work". It's much more hard to write a book that try to achieve these results by talking to the mind of artists. But the results there are exponentially more powerful. Indeed artists do not follow methodologies, so when you target them, unless the word you speak are word of truth and wisdom, you are unlikely to have any impact. Luckily this is clearly the case with this book, there is no methodology but there are practical methods and a practical insight who make you understand how to defeat resistance in your unique life. Go ahead and read it now. Whether you are a painter, a writer, a man willing to start a venture, to volunteer himself… you are an artist and this book is for you. This book is massively cheap for what you'll get out it. In my case, I feel it will save me dozen of years of struggle in my life. I'm glad God wanted me to understand the bigger picture, and directed me to this book. After reading it, I'm not only happy that my life will be empowered, I'm also happy to have faced this problem because thanks to this insight I'll be able to help others. It's impossible to really help someone who tells you : "I could not handle resistance. I had one novel nine-tenths of the way through and another at ninety-nine hundreth before I threw them in the trash. I couldn't finish them." without having experienced this situation and the strength and the obscure character of this inner energy by yourself. Steven Pressfield is helping us here. Now it's time to help yourself and buy this book.
Review: It is a must read for all artists - Many readers have used this as a handbook for their new journey into the world of art. It delves into various common problems that face people who wish to enter this realm, but who have all sorts of inner queries with leaving the social ‘herd’ where earning a traditional living once had priority. Making personal change has all sorts of inner barriers and blocks, that people first need to understand in order to overcome them. It is an American book which successfully crosses the pond because of its universal agendas and is relevant to British and other global readers. There are three main parts of the book: a) Resistance, defining the enemy; b) Combating Resistance, and finding solutions, 3) Beyond Resistance, and the higher realm. Each section has many small chapters that deal with detailed issues which could be applicable to a number of budding artists. This arrangement allows each reader to stop and think about every relevant subject before moving on. The book’s advices cannot do any potential artists any harm, but is merely a question of how much will each reader gain from it. Ultimately that depends on the reader themselves.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 347,429 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 194 in Health, Family & Lifestyle Self Help |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (29,430) |
| Dimensions  | 12.7 x 1 x 20.3 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 9395741538 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-9395741538 |
| Item weight  | 230 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 180 pages |
| Publication date  | 2 Nov. 2022 |
| Publisher  | Sanage Publishing House Llp |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great and inspiring book for everybody
*by R***B on 26 April 2015*

This is a great book. I've been able to recognize myself in everything written by the author. The author talks to artists, but the term artist has to be taken with a broad sense. He clarifies it early in the book, but don't forget it as you progress in the book. Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and potentially everybody can and should be an artist too, therefore this book targets everybody. This book arrives at the best time for me, I haven't been able to find someone who truly understands the way I feel. I was shocked when I read this : "I could not handle resistance. I had one novel nine-tenths of the way through and another at ninety-nine hundreth before I threw them in the trash. I couldn't finish them." Because it is exactly what happened to me. I was working on starting a web based venture, a web platform on which I've worked for months. At some point I was literally, nine-tenth of the way through. I estimated that I just needed 2 more weeks of work before finishing. Only 2 weeks after more than 8 months working on it ! But guess what : I never finished. I couldn't explained it. At the last minute, I decided to stop the development and begin to search for customers. It made sense, it was like a rationalization : instead of working in vain you'd rather get customers first. Then as day goes by, you see that it's difficult to get customer and you begin to think : the money will take some time to come here and you clearly need to work full-time on this. Are you really ready to do it ? And bit per bit you shift away, you become to be affected by other issues of you daily life. And one month later this project belongs to the past. You've just been lying to yourself, you've been self-defeating yourself. I didn't know it was resistance before reading the book. Procastination is a weak idea, this book is more than that. The author conceptualized everything perfectly. If you ever faced a situation where resistance has defeated you, it doesn't take long before you notice that the author has a real insight and knows what he is talking about. The strengh of this book is that the author has conceptualized this wide issue as well as the way to solve it, in an easy to read but powerful manner. The concept itself is powerful. But it's not enough, in my opinion the big strength is that while the author goes to the point, the book is not a collection of recipes. You don't find a 15 bullets points methodology to apply every morning. You find liberty, your mind is freed because you understand what's really going on. This is why this book is so great. It's very easy to do a time-management / project management book exposing some systematic method that are too be applied because they just "work". It's much more hard to write a book that try to achieve these results by talking to the mind of artists. But the results there are exponentially more powerful. Indeed artists do not follow methodologies, so when you target them, unless the word you speak are word of truth and wisdom, you are unlikely to have any impact. Luckily this is clearly the case with this book, there is no methodology but there are practical methods and a practical insight who make you understand how to defeat resistance in your unique life. Go ahead and read it now. Whether you are a painter, a writer, a man willing to start a venture, to volunteer himself… you are an artist and this book is for you. This book is massively cheap for what you'll get out it. In my case, I feel it will save me dozen of years of struggle in my life. I'm glad God wanted me to understand the bigger picture, and directed me to this book. After reading it, I'm not only happy that my life will be empowered, I'm also happy to have faced this problem because thanks to this insight I'll be able to help others. It's impossible to really help someone who tells you : "I could not handle resistance. I had one novel nine-tenths of the way through and another at ninety-nine hundreth before I threw them in the trash. I couldn't finish them." without having experienced this situation and the strength and the obscure character of this inner energy by yourself. Steven Pressfield is helping us here. Now it's time to help yourself and buy this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is a must read for all artists
*by A***N on 18 April 2025*

Many readers have used this as a handbook for their new journey into the world of art. It delves into various common problems that face people who wish to enter this realm, but who have all sorts of inner queries with leaving the social ‘herd’ where earning a traditional living once had priority. Making personal change has all sorts of inner barriers and blocks, that people first need to understand in order to overcome them. It is an American book which successfully crosses the pond because of its universal agendas and is relevant to British and other global readers. There are three main parts of the book: a) Resistance, defining the enemy; b) Combating Resistance, and finding solutions, 3) Beyond Resistance, and the higher realm. Each section has many small chapters that deal with detailed issues which could be applicable to a number of budding artists. This arrangement allows each reader to stop and think about every relevant subject before moving on. The book’s advices cannot do any potential artists any harm, but is merely a question of how much will each reader gain from it. Ultimately that depends on the reader themselves.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The single-most important book you can read—if you were born to create, but do not
*by 1***N on 5 August 2017*

This is the single most important book any individual can read if that individual meets the following criteria: * You are deeply unhappy with your life despite feeling that you have an immense urge to create—i.e. tortured by inactivity * You are astonished by the fact that you find yourself unable to start, but don't know why * You do not have a muse in person who helps push you * You dream but do not do This is a bold claim. I shall modify it slightly: apart from the book that inspires you most—the book in which the author literally moves your hands and guides you to begin, which Dostoevsky and Tolstoy always do—this book is the most important book for any individual that fulfils the above criteria. Certainly, it is the best non-fiction book for anyone whose life is severely affected not only by the fact that they are inactive, but by the more complex state of affairs that for some individuals, the desire to create is not something they choose. Failure to meet this inner demand, which is more important to their existence than almost anything else, leads to self-destruction that is as catastrophic as it is unavoidable. It is the source of much mental illness and therefore physical suffering. That is why this book is so important: for those who are simply born to create, not creating is tantamount to suicide. This can lead to literal suicide, or the state of suicide that is living a life that makes life a punishment. This book offers the solution to this issue not only through its clear statement of the answer, but by examining what stands in the way of living in accordance with that answer. The beauty of this book is that the author has centred in on the single-most important truth, and then dramatised this truth, and this struggle, allowing you to use the power of mythology to destroy the evil that is inactivity. I refuse to name what this truth is, because thinking one knows something and being able to act on it is precisely the issue this book solves. The end result is simple: if you are or know someone who is a person who cannot live without creating (by which I mean someone whose soul was forged to create, to search within and then present that finding to others, whether in the form of literature, music, painting, film or any other creative act—not the embarrassingly generic "I am a creative" description) and that person suffers because they are unable to force themselves to create, usually due to fear, this book is the single-best thing you can read. It is short, sweet, and powerful. It explains not only the problem and the solution, but the effects of the problem. This can shed light on issues that seemed to be disconnected, but were in fact all related to the individual's refusal to act on their nature. In this sense, this book both diagnoses and cures the source of great misery for a certain type of person, and frees them to embrace what they were born to do. This book is simply essential if you are or know someone who was born to create, but does not.

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