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\nare you ready to manage your work and<\/p>\n
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\npersonal world better to live a more<\/p>\n
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\nfulfilling productive life then you’ve<\/p>\n
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\ncome to the right place<\/p>\n
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\nwelcome to productivity cast the weekly<\/p>\n
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\nshow about all things productivity here<\/p>\n
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\nare your hosts ray Sydney Smith and<\/p>\n
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\ngusto pan out welcome back everybody<\/p>\n
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\nthis is Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto<\/p>\n
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\nPinaud good morning good morning how’s<\/p>\n
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\nit going this is productivity cast the<\/p>\n
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\nweekly show about all things personal<\/p>\n
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\nproductivity and today on this show we<\/p>\n
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\nare gonna be talking about resistance<\/p>\n
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\nthere is probably nobody better to<\/p>\n
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\ndiscuss resistance than the author that<\/p>\n
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\nwe’ll be discussing and his book which<\/p>\n
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\nis Steven Pressfield and the war of art<\/p>\n
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\nso who’s to tell us a little bit about<\/p>\n
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\nSteven Pressfield<\/p>\n
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\nI know his sort of his Wikipedia<\/p>\n
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\nbiography but I think you know him a<\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit better in terms of the<\/p>\n
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\nbackground and why this book you brought<\/p>\n
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\nup the topic and you sort of have<\/p>\n
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\nchampioned this this topic and so I’m<\/p>\n
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\nI’m curious about you know what really<\/p>\n
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\njumped out about pressfield’s background<\/p>\n
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\nand and what you know sort of sparked<\/p>\n
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\nyour interest in his work and just as<\/p>\n
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\nsort of a little bit of a background for<\/p>\n
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\nfolks before you get started at gusto is<\/p>\n
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\nthat Pressfield at least at the time<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re recording<\/p>\n
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\nI think his 73 or 74 years old and he is<\/p>\n
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\nan American author he’s written both<\/p>\n
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\nfiction and nonfiction and screenplays<\/p>\n
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\nand people probably most likely know him<\/p>\n
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\nfrom The Legend of badger fans that’s<\/p>\n
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\nprobably as big as because it’s turned<\/p>\n
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\ninto that you know the 2000 film as of<\/p>\n
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\nrecent in couple last years several<\/p>\n
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\nyears ago he has started a publishing<\/p>\n
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\nhouse called black Irish books and he<\/p>\n
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\nstarted that with his his agent Sean<\/p>\n
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\nCoyne and so he has a small publishing<\/p>\n
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\nhouse but anyway tell us tell us a<\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit more about Steven Pressfield<\/p>\n
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\nand what makes this topic so near and<\/p>\n
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\ndear to you Lucedale you know press<\/p>\n
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\nfield as you said most people know who<\/p>\n
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\nis because of the first book he wrote<\/p>\n
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\ngot into<\/p>\n
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\na movie and and that’s you know sadly a<\/p>\n
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\nlot of the reference for the people to<\/p>\n
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\nknow that is if the the movie more than<\/p>\n
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\nmore than that that said he has<\/p>\n
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\nparticipated in other movies even some<\/p>\n
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\nof them that people really know but but<\/p>\n
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\nhe’s here’s a quite interesting story<\/p>\n
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\nwhen he wrote he wrote a book that I<\/p>\n
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\nhave no way to to to prove what I’m<\/p>\n
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\ngoing to say but I think he wrote the<\/p>\n
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\nwar of heart for himself and I thought<\/p>\n
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\ntelling a story for what his his<\/p>\n
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\nstruggles to be in a writer and honestly<\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think he thought he was going to<\/p>\n
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\nhave that much success but that’s<\/p>\n
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\nbecause he was as he details in the book<\/p>\n
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\nhe was homeless living out of his car at<\/p>\n
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\nthe time he was writing the war part<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s why he probably didn’t think it<\/p>\n
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\nwas gonna be one success well you know<\/p>\n
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\nuh press Hilton right now enjoy a<\/p>\n
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\ncertain status as a writer he published<\/p>\n
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\nhe bombs delay your burger ones he had<\/p>\n
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\npublished some books on his history<\/p>\n
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\nif you fiction history or historic<\/p>\n
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\nfiction if you like history and Romans<\/p>\n
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\nand World War two really his I maybe I<\/p>\n
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\nlike them so his books even though some<\/p>\n
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\nof them are our fiction are amazing on<\/p>\n
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\nthe content on the historical facts that<\/p>\n
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\ntied up was that fiction to the point<\/p>\n
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\nthat really you can come and run and if<\/p>\n
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\nyou don’t know enough about some of<\/p>\n
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\nthose stories you know come and think<\/p>\n
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\nthat they have more reality than fiction<\/p>\n
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\nthat is one of the things that actually<\/p>\n
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\nmake him amazing as a writer his his his<\/p>\n
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\nsecond novel gates of fires is taught to<\/p>\n
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\nthe US military the Naval Academy and at<\/p>\n
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\nQuantico four Marines this is this is<\/p>\n
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\nnot like second-class historical fiction<\/p>\n
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\nthis is hardcore stuff right right<\/p>\n
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\none of the things that make him really<\/p>\n
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\ncool really special as a writer is he<\/p>\n
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\nhas been able<\/p>\n
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\nto show his humanity you know it takes<\/p>\n
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\nat least on my experience when you look<\/p>\n
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\nat writers and famous people you really<\/p>\n
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\nfind two kind of them the ones who are<\/p>\n
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\nperfect and never struggle okay and it<\/p>\n
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\nwas expected but they were going to get<\/p>\n
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\nthere and the ones who show you all the<\/p>\n
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\nmarks that they were led you in their<\/p>\n
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\nway you know I I can tell you as a<\/p>\n
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\nwriter I have published II you know<\/p>\n
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\neleven books and I wish to tell you the<\/p>\n
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\nsecond one was easier than the first one<\/p>\n
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\nand Dale Evans was easier than the<\/p>\n
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\nsecond one and sadly that’s a lie<\/p>\n
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\nat least has been a lie for me every<\/p>\n
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\nbook causes a struggle I’m right now<\/p>\n
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\nfinishing a book that is it’s difficult<\/p>\n
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\nyou know there is a point on writers<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s what I call the valley of despair<\/p>\n
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\nwhatever in his dark mushy you know<\/p>\n
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\neverything that you kind of dislike and<\/p>\n
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\nthe only way to finish that book is to<\/p>\n
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\ngrow through that valley of despair and<\/p>\n
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\nthe work of art come to tell you<\/p>\n
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\nPressfield version of that he talks to<\/p>\n
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\nwhat he called the resistance and the<\/p>\n
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\nresistance as he define it is that<\/p>\n
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\nlittle thing that little voice that tell<\/p>\n
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\nyou not to do it but tell you all the<\/p>\n
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\nreasons why you should not do it and<\/p>\n
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\ntell you all the reasons why you should<\/p>\n
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\nquit and when he published that book I<\/p>\n
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\nthink it was around 2002 it was really<\/p>\n
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\nthis up at the book on his phone it was<\/p>\n
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\nthe first time that somebody pinpoint<\/p>\n
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\nthat resistance and pinpoint the<\/p>\n
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\ndifference between what he called an<\/p>\n
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\namateur and Arana Pro when he’d make the<\/p>\n
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\ndistinction the difference is not that<\/p>\n
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\nthe pro doesn’t have this resistance the<\/p>\n
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\ndifference is the proud owner stop<\/p>\n
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\nbecause the resistance and he make all<\/p>\n
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\nthe difference and even tell his own<\/p>\n
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\nstory of when he as a writer changed<\/p>\n
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\nfrom being what he called<\/p>\n
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\nan amateur rider to being a pro rider<\/p>\n
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\nand an old holder change and for people<\/p>\n
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\nwho do are you will be able if you get<\/p>\n
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\nlucky and are able to break from them<\/p>\n
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\namateurish level of art to the pro level<\/p>\n
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\nof art you will find exactly the same<\/p>\n
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\nyou will see the resistance you will<\/p>\n
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\ndeal with the resistance but you will do<\/p>\n
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\nit anyway and again it was a first book<\/p>\n
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\nof that kind he has after that you know<\/p>\n
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\npublished two more books 2011 he<\/p>\n
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\npublished one called turning pro then he<\/p>\n
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\ndid one called do the work also all in<\/p>\n
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\nthe tree in the same lines okay and his<\/p>\n
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\nmessage has been grabbed for at least<\/p>\n
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\ntwo or three utters one of them was have<\/p>\n
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\ngotten who took the term persistence and<\/p>\n
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\ntried to make a distinction out of the<\/p>\n
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\nworld of art because when you read<\/p>\n
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\npress’ll book he obviously canalize his<\/p>\n
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\nbook to the art the writing to to being<\/p>\n
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\nan artist and the reality is resistance<\/p>\n
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\napplies to everybody who is doing<\/p>\n
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\nsomething great because even that it’s<\/p>\n
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\nnot necessarily conveyed that way on the<\/p>\n
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\nbook you know when you are an<\/p>\n
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\nentrepreneur you are an artist when you<\/p>\n
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\nare a solopreneur<\/p>\n
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\nyou are an artist when you are an<\/p>\n
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\nintrapreneur you are an artist even if<\/p>\n
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\nyou don’t recognize yourself as such if<\/p>\n
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\nyou are any of these things you are<\/p>\n
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\ndoing art for business you are bringing<\/p>\n
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\nsomething that this unique something<\/p>\n
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\nthat is new something that do not exist<\/p>\n
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\nor you are doing it in a way that<\/p>\n
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\nhaven’t been done before you will find<\/p>\n
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\nall this and you will deal with all this<\/p>\n
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\nyou know the people who listened to our<\/p>\n
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\nshow and who read productivity and who<\/p>\n
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\nare in the quest for being more<\/p>\n
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\nproductive to lead a better life in a<\/p>\n
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\nway the art of productivity it on the<\/p>\n
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\npeople who is in turn in playing there<\/p>\n
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\nare artists that are trying to do<\/p>\n
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\nsomething different something better and<\/p>\n
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\nin a different way and they will fight<\/p>\n
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\nwith resistance and they will do it and<\/p>\n
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\nif not think about the following when<\/p>\n
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\nyou begin your journey on the<\/p>\n
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\nproductivity world that persistence ok<\/p>\n
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\ncame to you unfaded ok with you were a<\/p>\n
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\nGT dear ok the first weeks the<\/p>\n
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\ncollection was difficult and then<\/p>\n
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\nfinally to conquer collection but then<\/p>\n
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\nit was processing ok and then it was a<\/p>\n
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\nweekly review and every other things<\/p>\n
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\nevery time you fail on those it was the<\/p>\n
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\nresistance you didn’t fail<\/p>\n
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\nyou know the weekly review because you<\/p>\n
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\nsay oh this is not important not you<\/p>\n
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\nknew what’s important you knew it was<\/p>\n
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\nhelpful but what happened well your<\/p>\n
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\nbrain start telling you or you don’t<\/p>\n
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\nhave the time all you’re so busy or you<\/p>\n
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\nhow you’re going to waste 2 hours of<\/p>\n
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\nyour time old you fill in the blank and<\/p>\n
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\nthat is resistant persistence is on<\/p>\n
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\neverything because I then of the day<\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t matter what you do I don’t<\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t matter if you are a business<\/p>\n
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\nowner doesn’t matter your intrapreneur<\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t matter you’re an intrapreneur<\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t matter if you’re an accountant<\/p>\n
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\nor a lawyer what do you do on the day<\/p>\n
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\ntoday if you are good at it you are<\/p>\n
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\ndoing art after you are doing art you<\/p>\n
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\nare going to need to fight with that<\/p>\n
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\ndifficult challenge of your own mind<\/p>\n
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\ntelling you that what you are doing is<\/p>\n
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\nnot worth it and that what you are doing<\/p>\n
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\nwhile you’re wasting your time and why’d<\/p>\n
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\nyou are not doing something else I think<\/p>\n
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\nit’s really interesting for us all to<\/p>\n
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\ntake heart to the fact that being<\/p>\n
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\nproductive requires a certain level of<\/p>\n
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\nfriction that is there’s an appropriate<\/p>\n
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\namount of friction that’s necessary for<\/p>\n
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\nus to be able to make progress and that<\/p>\n
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\ncomes into into account and this is more<\/p>\n
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\npsychologically but you know the reality<\/p>\n
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\nis is that if you have take the analogy<\/p>\n
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\nof your the wheels on your car won’t go<\/p>\n
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\nyou know what will take traction and<\/p>\n
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\nwe’ll be able to move forward on the on<\/p>\n
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\nthe street the same thing applies when<\/p>\n
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\nit comes to productive<\/p>\n
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\npersonal productivity in the sense that<\/p>\n
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\nyou know if we don’t have enough of a<\/p>\n
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\nchallenge then the mind is numbed to<\/p>\n
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\nwhat needs to be done and therefore it<\/p>\n
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\nsees no reason to do it so it needs to<\/p>\n
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\nreach a threshold it needs to reach this<\/p>\n
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\nlevel of you know what we’re doing and<\/p>\n
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\nas it relates to creative output I think<\/p>\n
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\nyou’re correcting gusto you know there<\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a wide range of things that that<\/p>\n
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\nare creative output that we don’t<\/p>\n
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\nnecessarily categorize as such but I<\/p>\n
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\ngeneralize because it just makes sense<\/p>\n
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\nright so creative output for me is just<\/p>\n
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\nthe brain doing pattern recognition it’s<\/p>\n
0:11:39.910,0:11:45.280
\ncreating connections among things that<\/p>\n
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\nseem to spare it they seem disconnected<\/p>\n
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\nfrom one another and when we make those<\/p>\n
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\nconnections that is either<\/p>\n
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\nproblem-solving or creativity you decide<\/p>\n
0:11:54.670,0:11:58.900
\non the semantics of it but that’s really<\/p>\n
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\nwhat it is and so I think what<\/p>\n
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\nPressfield does and this idea of<\/p>\n
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\nresistance within creativity is that<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re able to recognize the things that<\/p>\n
0:12:07.720,0:12:13.270
\nboth start us and and excite us like<\/p>\n
0:12:10.840,0:12:15.640
\npassion you know interest and those<\/p>\n
0:12:13.270,0:12:18.520
\nthings that try to stop us this<\/p>\n
0:12:15.640,0:12:20.080
\nuniversal force that Pressfield talks<\/p>\n
0:12:18.520,0:12:22.750
\nabout that attempts to keep us where we<\/p>\n
0:12:20.080,0:12:25.000
\nare from things not changing and from my<\/p>\n
0:12:22.750,0:12:27.070
\nperspective change is inevitable right<\/p>\n
0:12:25.000,0:12:29.590
\nyou know you’re going to age whether or<\/p>\n
0:12:27.070,0:12:33.160
\nnot you like it or no matter how much<\/p>\n
0:12:29.590,0:12:36.160
\nBotox or rest’ll an injection or or or<\/p>\n
0:12:33.160,0:12:39.430
\nother kinds of cosmetic surgery you do<\/p>\n
0:12:36.160,0:12:40.330
\nright you’re going to age and that’s<\/p>\n
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\njust what it is<\/p>\n
0:12:40.330,0:12:45.280
\ntime is gonna go forward what you do at<\/p>\n
0:12:42.880,0:12:47.110
\nthat time is very different and I think<\/p>\n
0:12:45.280,0:12:49.420
\nthat’s the real power of resistance here<\/p>\n
0:12:47.110,0:12:50.800
\nis that it can be a truly motivating<\/p>\n
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\nforce and I think there’s some good<\/p>\n
0:12:50.800,0:12:54.940
\nconstructive criticism out there of<\/p>\n
0:12:52.930,0:12:57.730
\npressfield’s concept there I know that<\/p>\n
0:12:54.940,0:12:59.770
\nthe psychologist Frederic Ida you know<\/p>\n
0:12:57.730,0:13:02.230
\nhe has some sort of constructive<\/p>\n
0:12:59.770,0:13:04.480
\ncriticism regarding Pressfield but I<\/p>\n
0:13:02.230,0:13:06.270
\nthink no matter how you how you look at<\/p>\n
0:13:04.480,0:13:07.570
\nit whether or not you look at it as<\/p>\n
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\nsomething that’s<\/p>\n
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\nagonistic versus something that can be<\/p>\n
0:13:11.430,0:13:16.130
\nmotivating right I think that we we<\/p>\n
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\nshould look at this as<\/p>\n
0:13:16.130,0:13:19.160
\nsomething that could be useful in<\/p>\n
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\nproductivity and personal productivity<\/p>\n
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\nthat we can actually harness this energy<\/p>\n
0:13:21.820,0:13:28.220
\nwhatever this energy is and and okay so<\/p>\n
0:13:25.610,0:13:31.550
\ndo you see it as as I mean since<\/p>\n
0:13:28.220,0:13:34.340
\nPressfield sort of analogizes it to this<\/p>\n
0:13:31.550,0:13:37.210
\nquote-unquote universal force do you see<\/p>\n
0:13:34.340,0:13:45.350
\nit as an energy that’s many billable I<\/p>\n
0:13:37.210,0:13:47.030
\nsee it more as something who suck the<\/p>\n
0:13:45.350,0:13:50.450
\nenergy more than the more than the<\/p>\n
0:13:47.030,0:13:53.930
\nmanipulate energy it takes the the<\/p>\n
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\nenergy out of you so if you if we go to<\/p>\n
0:13:53.930,0:14:01.490
\nthe analogy of a vehicle okay imagine<\/p>\n
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\nyou come and take the cable out of this<\/p>\n
0:14:01.490,0:14:06.020
\nPark Blocks okay if you do that I don’t<\/p>\n
0:14:03.980,0:14:08.360
\ncare how in good shape your vehicle is I<\/p>\n
0:14:06.020,0:14:10.340
\ndon’t care how far you want to drive I<\/p>\n
0:14:08.360,0:14:13.010
\ndon’t care how much gas you put on the<\/p>\n
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\nvehicle if the cable is not connected to<\/p>\n
0:14:13.010,0:14:16.840
\nthe spark plugs you’re not going there<\/p>\n
0:14:14.750,0:14:18.770
\nand that’s what resistance does<\/p>\n
0:14:16.840,0:14:20.390
\nresistance told you why do you need this<\/p>\n
0:14:18.770,0:14:24.980
\nkill all you don’t need this cable take<\/p>\n
0:14:20.390,0:14:30.680
\nit out you know who cares and it is it<\/p>\n
0:14:24.980,0:14:34.190
\nit released it robs the energy of what<\/p>\n
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\nyou want to do and it takes you know<\/p>\n
0:14:34.190,0:14:40.520
\npress’ll said on the war of art says<\/p>\n
0:14:37.870,0:14:44.210
\nresistance has no strength of his own<\/p>\n
0:14:40.520,0:14:47.540
\nevery ounce of use it possesses come<\/p>\n
0:14:44.210,0:14:50.780
\nfrom us we feed it with our power and<\/p>\n
0:14:47.540,0:14:55.220
\nour fear of it after the fear and you<\/p>\n
0:14:50.780,0:15:00.320
\nwill conquer resistance and and the<\/p>\n
0:14:55.220,0:15:03.350
\nreality is that when you are able to<\/p>\n
0:15:00.320,0:15:06.050
\nidentify problem with resistance the<\/p>\n
0:15:03.350,0:15:07.760
\nresistance is like a con-artist<\/p>\n
0:15:06.050,0:15:10.580
\nyou don’t know you’re dealing with<\/p>\n
0:15:07.760,0:15:12.080
\nresistance untold you now and I wish to<\/p>\n
0:15:10.580,0:15:14.930
\ntell you oh there is a magic formula<\/p>\n
0:15:12.080,0:15:16.790
\nthat I can give you you follow one two<\/p>\n
0:15:14.930,0:15:19.460
\nand three and discover resistance with<\/p>\n
0:15:16.790,0:15:22.250
\nresistance as a good con art this is<\/p>\n
0:15:19.460,0:15:25.880
\nreally tricky but in my experience when<\/p>\n
0:15:22.250,0:15:28.660
\nyou identify that your arguments on your<\/p>\n
0:15:25.880,0:15:31.940
\nexcuses are resisting<\/p>\n
0:15:28.660,0:15:34.670
\nimmediately as soon as you call it what<\/p>\n
0:15:31.940,0:15:38.690
\nit is your relationship with that<\/p>\n
0:15:34.670,0:15:41.740
\nfeeling change and that problem of<\/p>\n
0:15:38.690,0:15:45.680
\nenergy disappear it is a really<\/p>\n
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\nfascinating phenomenon that I that I<\/p>\n
0:15:45.680,0:15:52.190
\nwish could be explained better than in<\/p>\n
0:15:48.320,0:15:53.839
\nthe way I just did but if as soon as you<\/p>\n
0:15:52.190,0:15:56.120
\nyou know you are dealing with this fear<\/p>\n
0:15:53.839,0:15:57.830
\nor and then finally you know this call<\/p>\n
0:15:56.120,0:15:59.540
\nI’m just dealing with her assistance as<\/p>\n
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\nsoon as you call it what it is<\/p>\n
0:15:59.540,0:16:05.420
\nit lose all his power so because of that<\/p>\n
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\nno I don’t think if an energy as much as<\/p>\n
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\nI think is something that Rob’s or steal<\/p>\n
0:16:08.720,0:16:17.330
\nor all your energies so I’d like to move<\/p>\n
0:16:13.880,0:16:21.320
\nus in the direction of the applicable<\/p>\n
0:16:17.330,0:16:24.230
\nthe application the practical and talk a<\/p>\n
0:16:21.320,0:16:27.620
\nlittle bit about how resistance works in<\/p>\n
0:16:24.230,0:16:31.339
\nour own lives in our own productivity<\/p>\n
0:16:27.620,0:16:32.930
\nyou know sort of systems and tools you<\/p>\n
0:16:31.339,0:16:36.140
\nknow or how it might work against them<\/p>\n
0:16:32.930,0:16:38.240
\nyou know psychologically and how we cope<\/p>\n
0:16:36.140,0:16:41.959
\nwith them and maybe some some tools that<\/p>\n
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\nwe can use to get out of that space you<\/p>\n
0:16:41.959,0:16:45.560
\nknow how to recognize it sooner you know<\/p>\n
0:16:43.820,0:16:47.870
\ncreating awareness which is really<\/p>\n
0:16:45.560,0:16:50.540
\nimportant and then of course how to how<\/p>\n
0:16:47.870,0:16:52.670
\nto utilize this this new knowledge right<\/p>\n
0:16:50.540,0:16:54.920
\nif you if the if resistance is new to<\/p>\n
0:16:52.670,0:16:58.010
\nyou this Priscilla thien concept is new<\/p>\n
0:16:54.920,0:17:00.440
\nto you how do you use the knowledge to<\/p>\n
0:16:58.010,0:17:03.200
\ncreate awareness and to combat it and in<\/p>\n
0:17:00.440,0:17:04.880
\nessence and my my world I’m gonna say<\/p>\n
0:17:03.200,0:17:07.370
\nharness it I think that there’s a<\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a real motivational there’s a<\/p>\n
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\nmotivational impetus for me when I talk<\/p>\n
0:17:11.360,0:17:15.020
\nabout harnessing this resistance as<\/p>\n
0:17:13.069,0:17:17.059
\nenergy I see it from the flipside gusto<\/p>\n
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\nI see it as being something that is a<\/p>\n
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\nforce it’s sort of like a black hole but<\/p>\n
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\njust like a black hole sucks energy in<\/p>\n
0:17:22.550,0:17:30.559
\nI’m able to use that dark matter force<\/p>\n
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\nto slingshot myself away from it if that<\/p>\n
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\nmakes any sense to those of you who love<\/p>\n
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\nastrophysics this makes sense to you but<\/p>\n
0:17:37.700,0:17:41.929
\nbut I really do believe that you can<\/p>\n
0:17:39.620,0:17:44.570
\nharness resistance for it’s it’s<\/p>\n
0:17:41.929,0:17:47.090
\npositivity and for its positive behavior<\/p>\n
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\nmodification so so let’s talk about this<\/p>\n
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\nany more<\/p>\n
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\nground-level stuff you know if we go<\/p>\n
0:17:49.940,0:17:55.789
\nback to to the world part you know<\/p>\n
0:17:52.519,0:17:58.190
\npress the list for what he called a<\/p>\n
0:17:55.789,0:18:00.499
\nresistance greatest hits okay and he<\/p>\n
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\nsaid is in no particular order but he<\/p>\n
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\nsaid pursuit of any calling in writing<\/p>\n
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\npainting music film dance or any<\/p>\n
0:18:06.409,0:18:12.470
\ncreative art however marginal or<\/p>\n
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\nunconventional if you are trying to do<\/p>\n
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\nthe same thing that other has done yeah<\/p>\n
0:18:14.809,0:18:17.720
\nprobably resistance doesn’t care because<\/p>\n
0:18:16.789,0:18:21.019
\nwe’re sisters<\/p>\n
0:18:17.720,0:18:24.619
\nthe objective of resistance is to<\/p>\n
0:18:21.019,0:18:27.169
\nexterminate extraordinary he said also<\/p>\n
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\nthe launching of any intrapreneurial<\/p>\n
0:18:27.169,0:18:33.440
\nbehringer or enterprise for-profit or<\/p>\n
0:18:30.019,0:18:36.799
\notherwise any diet or health regimen any<\/p>\n
0:18:33.440,0:18:40.039
\nprogram of a spiritual advancement and<\/p>\n
0:18:36.799,0:18:42.529
\nyou know when you go to do big diet as<\/p>\n
0:18:40.039,0:18:44.990
\nan example most people have t always<\/p>\n
0:18:42.529,0:18:47.749
\nassistance most people has come in to a<\/p>\n
0:18:44.990,0:18:51.320
\ndiet program and failed and you don’t<\/p>\n
0:18:47.749,0:18:53.690
\nfail because you kind of do it you fail<\/p>\n
0:18:51.320,0:18:56.119
\nbecause that internal talking told you<\/p>\n
0:18:53.690,0:18:58.129
\nall well you know you have been really<\/p>\n
0:18:56.119,0:19:00.679
\ngood for four days you really deserve<\/p>\n
0:18:58.129,0:19:03.110
\nthat ice cream you you have been really<\/p>\n
0:19:00.679,0:19:05.509
\nwell over this weekend you know tomorrow<\/p>\n
0:19:03.110,0:19:08.450
\nat lunch you should get that that too<\/p>\n
0:19:05.509,0:19:10.399
\nlittle coke okay odd you should you know<\/p>\n
0:19:08.450,0:19:11.659
\nyou have really worked hard into losing<\/p>\n
0:19:10.399,0:19:12.499
\nthe pounds wide you don’t need that<\/p>\n
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\ncarrot cake<\/p>\n
0:19:12.499,0:19:16.999
\nthat’s resistance nothing else in his<\/p>\n
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\nmore spewer<\/p>\n
0:19:16.999,0:19:25.100
\nand simple form watch it that carrot<\/p>\n
0:19:19.519,0:19:29.059
\ncake is totally on the table yes it is<\/p>\n
0:19:25.100,0:19:32.330
\nyou know it’s the problem you know and<\/p>\n
0:19:29.059,0:19:35.389
\nagain if you go back to to to the book<\/p>\n
0:19:32.330,0:19:38.059
\nyou know he he said persistence is the<\/p>\n
0:19:35.389,0:19:40.820
\nmost toxic force in the planet cannot<\/p>\n
0:19:38.059,0:19:44.149
\nand the problem is cannot be seen touch<\/p>\n
0:19:40.820,0:19:46.279
\nheard or smelt but it can be felt we<\/p>\n
0:19:44.149,0:19:49.159
\nexperience it as an energy field<\/p>\n
0:19:46.279,0:19:51.830
\nradiating from a working potential it is<\/p>\n
0:19:49.159,0:19:53.500
\na repelling force it’s aimed to shove us<\/p>\n
0:19:51.830,0:19:56.340
\naway destructive<\/p>\n
0:19:53.500,0:19:59.200
\nfrom doing our work resistance is a<\/p>\n
0:19:56.340,0:20:02.100
\nself-generated and sir perpetrated and<\/p>\n
0:19:59.200,0:20:06.760
\nthe reality is is the enemy within<\/p>\n
0:20:02.100,0:20:08.940
\nanybody who has ever tried to do an<\/p>\n
0:20:06.760,0:20:11.530
\nextraordinary project a project<\/p>\n
0:20:08.940,0:20:14.289
\nunconventional project a really cool<\/p>\n
0:20:11.530,0:20:16.419
\nproject have dealt with resistance they<\/p>\n
0:20:14.289,0:20:20.020
\nmay know it they may not know it they<\/p>\n
0:20:16.419,0:20:23.590
\nmay not even know how to call it but the<\/p>\n
0:20:20.020,0:20:27.970
\nreality is nobody is exempt and again<\/p>\n
0:20:23.590,0:20:31.720
\nwhat make Pressfield cool was he wasn’t<\/p>\n
0:20:27.970,0:20:34.960
\ntrying to say I am exempt to this day he<\/p>\n
0:20:31.720,0:20:36.640
\ntold you that he dealt you know nonce to<\/p>\n
0:20:34.960,0:20:38.919
\nread his blog and your rigid things and<\/p>\n
0:20:36.640,0:20:43.030
\nhe openly said I deal with this stuff<\/p>\n
0:20:38.919,0:20:46.330
\nevery day I deal with guys need to come<\/p>\n
0:20:43.030,0:20:47.919
\nfight resistance everyday resistance is<\/p>\n
0:20:46.330,0:20:50.169
\nnot something for the people who are<\/p>\n
0:20:47.919,0:20:51.700
\nweld you know I’m feeling the fear<\/p>\n
0:20:50.169,0:20:53.890
\nbecause I have not make it oh I’m<\/p>\n
0:20:51.700,0:20:55.630
\nfeeling the fear because I’m I’m not<\/p>\n
0:20:53.890,0:20:58.419
\nthere no no you’re talking with a guy<\/p>\n
0:20:55.630,0:21:01.330
\nthat by any measure of the imagination<\/p>\n
0:20:58.419,0:21:04.179
\nhas been incredibly successful okay and<\/p>\n
0:21:01.330,0:21:08.049
\nhe continued deal with anything that you<\/p>\n
0:21:04.179,0:21:09.640
\nbelieve on that you are not doing and<\/p>\n
0:21:08.049,0:21:11.950
\nthat you are not doing because you are<\/p>\n
0:21:09.640,0:21:14.110
\nafraid of and you’re not doing because<\/p>\n
0:21:11.950,0:21:16.150
\nyou’re Atleti allowing the fear to win<\/p>\n
0:21:14.110,0:21:18.130
\nand you’re not doing because you are<\/p>\n
0:21:16.150,0:21:21.700
\nallowing your mind and its speech on<\/p>\n
0:21:18.130,0:21:23.530
\nyour mind to come front I’m not allowing<\/p>\n
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\nyou to do it or stop you and distract<\/p>\n
0:21:23.530,0:21:28.799
\nyou to do it is resistance when you have<\/p>\n
0:21:26.380,0:21:33.070
\nthe project that you know is amazing<\/p>\n
0:21:28.799,0:21:35.890
\nokay but you are allowing perfectionism<\/p>\n
0:21:33.070,0:21:38.350
\nor you are allowing fear what if people<\/p>\n
0:21:35.890,0:21:40.179
\ndon’t like it that is resistance in<\/p>\n
0:21:38.350,0:21:43.059
\nsince pure way it doesn’t matter your<\/p>\n
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\nlevel of success it doesn’t matter your<\/p>\n
0:21:43.059,0:21:49.150
\nlevel work it doesn’t matter what kind<\/p>\n
0:21:45.760,0:21:52.210
\nof work you do even if you may conquer<\/p>\n
0:21:49.150,0:21:55.020
\nresistance on area a of your life and<\/p>\n
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\nyou will find it hugely on area B and C<\/p>\n
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\nbecause again resistance is a con artist<\/p>\n
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\ndifferent ways for you not to identify<\/p>\n
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\nso it’s not a battle that you will win<\/p>\n
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\nPizza battle that in order to win you<\/p>\n
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\nneed to fight daily yes a couple of<\/p>\n
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\nthings I wanted to to point out for<\/p>\n
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\nfolks who are listening and want to be<\/p>\n
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\nable to overcome resistance in some sort<\/p>\n
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\nof in some practical terms you know<\/p>\n
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\nthere there are a couple of things I<\/p>\n
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\nreally enjoy the work of dr. Johnson<\/p>\n
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\nNorcross as some of you know I run<\/p>\n
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\nproductivity book group the virtual<\/p>\n
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\nreading group we discussed his book<\/p>\n
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\nchange ology maybe 2015 and we the book<\/p>\n
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\nis called Chang geology five steps to<\/p>\n
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\nrealizing your goals and resolutions and<\/p>\n
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\ndr. norcross’s research comes on the<\/p>\n
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\nheels of I think 20 something odd years<\/p>\n
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\nof research into you know goal<\/p>\n
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\ndevelopment goal implementation or goal<\/p>\n
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\nachievement and habit development this<\/p>\n
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\nis all research-based work and he talks<\/p>\n
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\nabout this method of being able to<\/p>\n
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\nchange he uses sort of a 90 day model<\/p>\n
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\nfor being able to do it who knows if<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s sort of the the right amount of<\/p>\n
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\ntime for every you know change but being<\/p>\n
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\nable to overcome resistance in this way<\/p>\n
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\nI think is really important I’ll put<\/p>\n
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\nlinks to all of these in the show notes<\/p>\n
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\nso that you can sort of check out our<\/p>\n
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\nbook discussion but also the change<\/p>\n
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\nology book website because it goes over<\/p>\n
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\nthis process a little bit more closely<\/p>\n
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\nand has some self assessment and some<\/p>\n
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\nself change exercises one of the things<\/p>\n
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\nthat he posits is something typically<\/p>\n
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\ncalled a decision decisional balance<\/p>\n
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\nsheet where you basically use a multiple<\/p>\n
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\nyou’re capable of dealing with that and<\/p>\n
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\nespecially for dealing with ambivalence<\/p>\n
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\nyou know it’s something that I’ve<\/p>\n
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\nof city get a situation and being<\/p>\n
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\nambivalent about the task at hand<\/p>\n
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\nbecause the motivations there right I<\/p>\n
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\nknow I can go up horizons and so<\/p>\n
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\nGTD lingo I know that I can go up<\/p>\n
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\nchanging for yourself and others and you<\/p>\n
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\nwant to start writing that email okay<\/p>\n
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\nfor yourself and for others and so you<\/p>\n
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\njust really quickly create that sort of<\/p>\n
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\njust very very quickly you know writing<\/p>\n
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\nthis things down one I think anything<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the work of dr. Daniel Goleman most<\/p>\n
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\nfruitless rumination ruminating is just<\/p>\n
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\ngoing over the same and same thoughts<\/p>\n
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\nwhen we become creative and I think<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t think you should expect to do<\/p>\n
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\nto move forward on the first milestone<\/p>\n
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\nanything else that we’ve missed you know<\/p>\n
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\nreally long time to understand that<\/p>\n
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\nresistance apply to anything you are<\/p>\n
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\ndoing that is worth something yeah if<\/p>\n
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\nyou’re just cranking widgets and you<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t care for creativity and you don’t<\/p>\n
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\ncare for be outstanding and you don’t<\/p>\n
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\ncare to be different yeah you probably<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t have resistance or that’s what you<\/p>\n
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\nthink actually you are suffering under<\/p>\n
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\nthe umbrella resistance if you believe<\/p>\n
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\nyou cannot do any of those you know more<\/p>\n
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\noutstanding extraordinary things but<\/p>\n
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\nfine if you don’t want to aim for that<\/p>\n
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\nthat at the end of the day is your call<\/p>\n
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\nbut if you are trying to do anything<\/p>\n
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\nthat is worthwhile anything<\/p>\n
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\nyou are going to find persistence you<\/p>\n
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\nare going to need to fight resistance<\/p>\n
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\nand the only way get somewhere is turn<\/p>\n
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\nthere is no muse there is no inspiration<\/p>\n
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\nthere is nothing that will come that<\/p>\n
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\nwill help you not to get or not to fight<\/p>\n
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\nagainst resistance and you know there is<\/p>\n
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\na couple of quotes from Pressfield that<\/p>\n
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\ni tried to put in front of myself often<\/p>\n
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\nenough and one of them says resistance<\/p>\n
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\nwill tell you anything to keep you from<\/p>\n
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\ndoing your work and you may be conscious<\/p>\n
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\nof it you may be unconscious of it but<\/p>\n
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\nevery time you are not putting the work<\/p>\n
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\nand you are postponing the work<\/p>\n
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\nregardless what that is regardless if<\/p>\n
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\nhe’s writing the answer to the judge<\/p>\n
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\npost regarding what it is what you are<\/p>\n
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\nallowing is resistance to win and on<\/p>\n
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\nthat same line then I would like to at<\/p>\n
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\nleast close what I have to say with<\/p>\n
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\nanother quote of Pressfield and it’d<\/p>\n
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\njust be too dumb to quit unto a stubborn<\/p>\n
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\nto back off and that so far is the only<\/p>\n
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\nrecipe I have found to be the resistance<\/p>\n
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\nwith some kind of success I think that<\/p>\n
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\nnicely wraps up this episode of<\/p>\n
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\nproductivity Catherine and so thank you<\/p>\n
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\nso much for listening if you have<\/p>\n
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\nthoughts in terms of how you tackle<\/p>\n
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\nresistance how you overcome it<\/p>\n
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\npotentially harness resistance in order<\/p>\n
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\nto be able to be more productive we’d<\/p>\n
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\nlove to hear from you feel free to hop<\/p>\n
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\non over to productivity cast net you can<\/p>\n
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\nahead and comment on the episode in the<\/p>\n
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\ncomments section and below the episode<\/p>\n
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\nand let us know let us know your<\/p>\n
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\nthoughts let us know what types of<\/p>\n
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\nresistance you have come into contact<\/p>\n
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\nwith and what kinds of tools and<\/p>\n
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\napproaches you’ve taken in order<\/p>\n
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