Do the Work

Дочитал. Заметки:

• Any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity will elicit Resistance.
• Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
• Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill.
• Start Before You’re Ready.
• The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.
• Before we begin, you wanna do research? Uh-unh. I’m putting you on a diet. You’re allowed to read three books on your subject. No more.
• Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
• Swing for the Seats.
• Resistance is an active, intelligent, protean, malign force—tireless, relentless, and inextinguishable—whose sole object is to stop us from becoming our best selves and from achieving our higher goals.
• Research can be fun. It can be seductive. That’s its danger. We need it, we love it. But we must never forget that research can become Resistance.
• One rule for first full working drafts: get them done ASAP.
• Get to THE END as if the devil himself were breathing down your neck and poking you in the butt with his pitchfork.
• The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building.
• Only one thing matters in this initial draft: get SOMETHING done, however flawed or imperfect.
• Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.
• When an idea pops into our head and we think, “No, this is too crazy,”  … that’s the idea we want.
• Your work-in-progress produces its own gravitational field, created by your will and your attention. This field attracts like-spirited entities into its orbit.
• If you’ve got a head, you’ve got a voice of Resistance inside it.
• The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
• There is no way to be nice to the dragon, or to reason with it or negotiate with it or beam a white light around it and make it your friend.
• Our greatest fear is fear of success.
• The bad news is, the problem is hell. The good news is it’s just a problem. It’s not us. We are not worthless or evil or crazy. We’re just us, facing a problem.
• A perplexed person stands before two doors. One door says HEAVEN. The other says BOOKS ABOUT HEAVEN.
• Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
• Stay stupid. Trust the soup. Start before you’re ready.