The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
At first I found the definition of Resistance (uppercase ‘R’) intriguing — a personification of the reasons you’re afraid to finish, why you procrastinate. As you progress through the book, though, the metaphors seem to get more and more religious in nature. While I appreciate their status as allegory, as an atheist, it just turned me off a bit, though the message itself is helpful. I did get a lot out of the segments of the book that were more about actionable advice and less about an unseen battle.
I felt the advice was useful and has helped me (to a degree) to mentally deal better with my procrastination, but lost a couple of stars in my eyes because of the dogmatic tone. It may have been more helpful to others who don’t mind such things, but as it was I never felt fully able to commit to the conceit of the “war” between Resistance and your “Better Angels.”
Just kind of trying out this whole GoodReads review posting thing. Not bad, but… not sure if I totally like it. Too whorish?