Beating Resistance

Question 1

For an artist, whats the most import thing of the day?

Answer 1

Beat the resistance. Do your art/craft everyday. Just do it.

Question 2

Whats the secret that a genius know that the amateur doesnt?

Answer 2

That studying isn’t the hard part, the hard part is sitting to study. What keeps you from sitting down is the resistance.

Question 3

What is between the life you live and the life you want?

Answer 3

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Question 4

Late at night
have you experienced a vision of the person you might
become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being
you were meant to be?

Answer 4

Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a
painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a
venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Question 5

Whats a good metaphor for resistance?

Answer 5

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
As powerful as is our soul’s call to realization, so potent are
the forces of Resistance arrayed against it.

Question 6

When resistance beats us?

Answer 6

when we became drunks and drug
addicts, develope neuroses, succumb to
painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply
because we don’t do that thing that our hearts, our inner
genius, is calling us to.

Question 7

Whats the characteristics of resistance?

Answer 7

Resistance is:
1. Invisible
2. Internal (its not in your boss, friends, family)
3. Traiçoeira (vai fazer de tudo e usará todos os argumentos pra lhe desviar)
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