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1531 – Небесный воин, замок и армия над Страсбургом.
Nov. 8th, 2014
1531 – Небесный воин, замок и армия над Страсбургом.
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Nov. 8th, 2014 05:04 pmThe War of Art
Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is basically a manual, derived from the style of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. It is devised to teach those in creative disciplines to overcome their self-made obstacles, or what Pressfield refers to as “resistance.” His book investigates this subject in an aggressive, thoughtful, although somewhat flawed way.
The War of Art is divided into three sections. The first deals defining what he calls the enemy or “resistance.” The second deals with combating resistance by “turning pro.” The third and the most problematic is entitled “Beyond Resistance: The Higher Realm.” Here his argument takes on a spiritual dimension, mixing romantic concepts of creation and genius with Christian spirituality and Jungian Psychoanalysis.
Resistance: Defining the Enemey
The best and harshest portion of the book is the first, “Resistance: Defining the Enemy.” Here Pressfield lays out how resistance (that is all the ways we sabotage ourselves from reaching our own potential, including laziness, rationalization, fear, jealousy, etc) can conspire to stop us from doing our work. By defining the perniciousness of this enemy, Pressfield makes it easier for us to objectify it, recognize it, and so defeat it. As he puts it, “Resistance is the enemy within.”
http://howcreativeswork.com/2014/10/27/understanding-the-creative-battle-steven-pressfields-the-war-of-art/
As Pressfield defines it, the struggle against resistance is one that everyone must contend with, but artists struggle every day, and it is one they must win or die. Pressfield describes the state we are in when we encounter resistance.
“First unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We’re bored, we’re restless. We can’t get no satisfaction. There’s guilt, but we can’t put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We’re disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves.”
Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is basically a manual, derived from the style of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. It is devised to teach those in creative disciplines to overcome their self-made obstacles, or what Pressfield refers to as “resistance.” His book investigates this subject in an aggressive, thoughtful, although somewhat flawed way.
The War of Art is divided into three sections. The first deals defining what he calls the enemy or “resistance.” The second deals with combating resistance by “turning pro.” The third and the most problematic is entitled “Beyond Resistance: The Higher Realm.” Here his argument takes on a spiritual dimension, mixing romantic concepts of creation and genius with Christian spirituality and Jungian Psychoanalysis.
Resistance: Defining the Enemey
The best and harshest portion of the book is the first, “Resistance: Defining the Enemy.” Here Pressfield lays out how resistance (that is all the ways we sabotage ourselves from reaching our own potential, including laziness, rationalization, fear, jealousy, etc) can conspire to stop us from doing our work. By defining the perniciousness of this enemy, Pressfield makes it easier for us to objectify it, recognize it, and so defeat it. As he puts it, “Resistance is the enemy within.”
http://howcreativeswork.com/2014/10/27/understanding-the-creative-battle-steven-pressfields-the-war-of-art/
As Pressfield defines it, the struggle against resistance is one that everyone must contend with, but artists struggle every day, and it is one they must win or die. Pressfield describes the state we are in when we encounter resistance.
“First unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We’re bored, we’re restless. We can’t get no satisfaction. There’s guilt, but we can’t put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We’re disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves.”