Steven Pressfield's War of Art & Do the Work (Procrastination and creativity)

[kalmia]

I have noticed many people dealing with procrastination on this forum and the podcasts. I think Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art and the book Do the Work are useful in pushing through it and also in finding goals and direction. I am wondering what your thoughts are on them if you are familiar.

 

 

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battle

 

Do the Work

[Bulbasaur]

The war of art is a very good, quick and easy read that challenges you to think differently about how to approach work and procrastination, and to reframe what it means to be a "professional" as something that you're fully in control of, rather than something external. It's all about the "resistance" that causes procrastination and self-sabotage; recognizing the various insidious ways it derails you, and personifying it as a destructive force which the professional must defeat.

 

I haven't read the other, so I can't comment on that. 

[kalmia]

Looking at this thread now, I think it would have been better started as a suggestion of resources to help with procrastination.