Resistance In Stephen Pressfield's The War Of Art

Stephen Pressfield, author of The War of Art, states that most people have two lives: the life we live and the unlived life within us, but between the two stands resistance. Resistance is a disease that is more widespread than the common cold and more deadly than the Bubonic Plague. Every human being on planet Earth is a carrier of this disease, it is a disease that will cripple and prevent anyone from achieving what the carrier was put on this planet to do; whether that calling be art, music, writing, sports, or teaching, all humans have a calling, but it’s quite easy for one to be tied down with a family, work, or distractions in general. No one I know has suffered because of resistance more than my grandmother, Rita.
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The figure is once again of her, in the same dress, hands behind the band, and to the left portion of the paper. It’s as if this illustration is in a different perspective of the first one. This perspective is to the figure’s slight left, so it allows the viewer to get a wider view of the figure. It is looking down, the look of sadness irradiates from its face, and a small mark is below its eye. This mark could just be that, an accident, or it could be a tear due to the placement and the context of the drawing. In front of the figure, is another speech bubble coming out of its mouth, this time saying, “She can’t draw.” The doubts that have been engraved in her mind are now out on paper, her resistance is telling her she can’t draw, and she has believed it for her entire life. Perhaps if she never doubted herself and kept at it, she’d have soon become the artist she wanted to be. It was in the family, her two daughters could draw, as could her father. The pressure from the talent around her prevented her from achieving herself, for she was afraid that she wouldn’t have been as skilled as