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Turning Pro

by Steven Pressfield. For any creative, creator, writer, artist, dreamer, builder, doer who is facing Resistance This is the immediate follow up to War of Art and my favorite in the 6-ish book series. Start with WoA and then read this immediately. Short book, can be read in a couple hours — picked up and set down at will

@mattshawsome

Oct 21, 2024

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'the war of art' by stephen pressfield

The ultimate get-off-your-ass creative manual. It's SO GOOD and SO INSPIRING and I have demanded people's address at bars many times and ordered a copy for them on the spot. Plus reading about doing the work is a lot easier than doing the work (and still counts as work).

@sam_sumpta

Jan 23, 2024

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The War of Art

Reminded of this book today. It was instumental in helping me take writing seriously. The concept of personifying all our little self-sabotaging acts as an antagonistic entity called Resistance was so useful. Ironically, I don't remember finishing the book. But I did finish my first screenplay. Worth revisiting.

@lucius

Apr 11, 2024

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no video on pi.fyi

this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing

@mattshawsome

Oct 5, 2024

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necessary endings

this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option

@mattshawsome

Mar 11, 2025

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realizing that at some point not so long ago you crossed an invisible line and now you're a different person, in a very good way

huh cool wow

@mattshawsome

Mar 27, 2025